I must say that after seeing all the coverage of armed militia men in Michigan standing up for their right to infect other people, I got a bit of a kick out of this bit of lawless behavior by someone on our side:
The state is reconsidering its policy after a hacker released a script that automatically submits junk data to its ‘COVID-19 fraud’ website, which allows employers to report workers who refuse to work during the pandemic.
The state of Ohio won’t deny unemployment benefits to people who refuse to work during the COVID-19 pandemic after people targeted the website it was using to track these workers, according to officials at the state’s Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS).
The state previously set up a “fraud” website encouraging employers to report those who refused to go back on the job, angering workers and labor rights advocates. State officials say they are now reconsidering the policy after Motherboard reported that a hacker created a script to flood the “COVID-19 Fraud” website with junk data, with the goal of making it impossible to process these claims.
Yes, it’s wrong, but unlike the militia men, these hackers are on the side of the angels. Ohio’s policy is egregiously despicable. One has to wonder whether this bit of protest will get the coverage from the mainstream that it has given to what are often sparsely attended demonstrations by the Nazis.