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Lesson here is don't embarrass the prosecutor's office. These people aren't held accountable to anyone and they don't want that to change.

Wouldn’t the lesson here be don’t perform any penetrates for courthouses in Iowa? They’ve shown themselves to be vindictive and petty, why exactly is their security worth risking my freedom?

On the other side of this, surely your freedom is already at risk if the courthouse has poor security?

That's why companies that don't pay and even sometimes prosecute white hats basically paint a giant target on their backs. All they've accomplished is ensuring that future security practices will be worse and they'll be less secure.

I keep telling people the only solution is to get rid of the but nobody listens..

is to get rid of the but nobody listens

Sorry, get rid of what?

Don’t worry about it. He got rid of it.

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