IN OCTOBER, we all saw the disastrous roll-out of the Obamacare website. IN NOVEMBER, we learned that Tony Trenkle (Chief Information Officer for Healthcare.gov) told his boss Marilyn Tavenner and her boss Kathleen Sebelius that the website could NOT be secured without another year of work. He recommended they delay the launch.
Tavenner and Sebelius buried Trenkle’s warning and launched the insecure site anyway, KNOWING it would put millions of Americans’ most personal information at risk.
LAST WEEK, hacking expert David Kennedy testified before Congress last week that he had no trouble penetrating the site’s so-called security and gaining access to 70,000 personal records of Obamacare enrollees.
- He said he could’ve gotten a lot more records, but he stopped at 70,000 because he’d set a 4 minute limit on his experiment.
- He also said he didn’t need any special software. He got in using a standard browser.
“It’s not just myself that’s saying this website is insecure,” he told Congress. “It’s also seven other independent security researchers that also looked at the research I’ve done and came to the exact same conclusion.”
I refuse to even click on the site.
Source:
- http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/11/12/explosive-healthcare-gov-memo-shows-security-flaws-were-specifically-known-and-safe-site-launch-date-would-be-mid-2014-the-memo-was-hidden-from-site-project-manager/
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/hacking-expert-david-kennedy-says-he-cracked-healt/
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I refuse to click on it until I have to, since I will lose my coverage on the last day of this year, thanks to Obamacare. At that point, I can pay $5000 more a year for less coverage than I have now, or I can check out the exchanges and hope for something more affordable. What rotten choices.
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