Remember awhile back the governor of Florida fired the woman who had set up that state's COVID-19 database? It turns out that she's the person whose house was raided by a team of armed cops and whose computers were seized, because the government of Florida accused her of "hacking."
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-officials-defend-raid-covid-004133712.htmlIf the allegations are all true, what she did wasn't really "hacking" as most people understand it. Apparently Florida uses a common log-in name and password for the entire department she used to work for, so when she was fired they didn't (and effectively couldn't) revoke her log-in credentials. Which means, as one source in the article said, that the state is going to have to prove that they told her she couldn't continue to use her access to log into the system. Dollars to donuts nobody told her that.
I was surprised to find that she was actually fired, as in terminated from state employment. I'm surprised they could do that, unless she was a consultant rather than a regular state employee. When she was removed from running the database a few months ago, I assumed that she had just been reassigned to a desk in a corner and taken off the database assignment. Apparently, in this case, "fired" did mean "fired." (As opposed to all the officers at Fort Hood, in which case "fired" only means removed from command and reassigned.)
