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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

A Hacker's Dream

John McAfee, founder of anti-virus company McAfee, Inc, on the ObamaCare exchanges:
On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities.”
For starters, McAfee said the way it is set up makes it possible for fake websites be set up to fool people to think they’re signing up for Obamacare.
“It’s seriously bad,” McAfee said. “Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program but in simply implementing the web aspect of it. I mean, for example, anybody can put up a web page and claim to be a broker for this system. There is no central place where I can go and say, ‘OK, here are all the legitimate brokers, the examiners for all of the states and pick and choose one.’”
“Instead, any hacker can put a website up, make it look extremely competitive, and because of the nature of the system — and this is health care, after all — they can ask you the most intimate questions, and you’re freely going to answer them,” he continued. “What’s my Social Security number? My birth date? What are my health issues?”
According to McAfee, there’s not a quick fix — and as long as it set up this way, it could be a playground for computer hackers.
“Here’s the problem: It’s not something software can solve,” McAfee continued. “I mean, what idiot put this system out there and did not create a central depository? There should be one website, run by the government, you go to that website and then you can click on all of the agencies. This is insane. So, I will predict that the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities — I mean, you can imagine some retired lady in Utah, who has $75,000 dollars in the bank, saving her whole life, having it wiped out in one day because she signed up for Obamacare. And believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This is a hacker’s wet dream. I mean I cannot believe that they did this.”

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4 comments:

lmclain said...

Everyone who thought (or still thinks) that obama is the brilliant savior of mankind who can do no wrong (if we only pledge undying loyalty and zero criticism) hasn't tried to enroll in this fiasco. Or hasn't seen what their deductible is....

Anonymous said...

I think we've all been around long enough to know that if the Government is running a program it's going to be screwed up or go broke.

Anonymous said...

We already know this drill. Being the typical democrat woman, that Sebelius chick will take the fall being the good subservient all obeying slave.

Anonymous said...

Obamacare was designed TO FAIL. The ultimate goal is and has always been a single payer system...Whorehouse Harry Reid even said it--that Obamacare is just a step towards a single payer system. When it is finally "acknowledged" that Obamacare does not work, the government will step in and say, "oh, we will fix this--see? Just go to single payer system and things will be great".