More Obummercare news. Thanks to Michael for the link to the story.
It could take a year to secure the risk of “high exposures” of personal information on the federal Obamacare online exchange, a cybersecurity expert told CNBC on Monday.
A year! A year? WTF? A year?
“When you develop a website,
Not just a website, but any operating system, which is the back end to the website. It’s where the actual stuff gets done.
you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn’t appear to have happened this time,” said David Kennedy, a so-called “white hat” hacker who tests online security by breaching websites. He testified on Capitol Hill about the flaws of HealthCare.gov last week.
Security? We don’t need no steenkin’ security! I could go into a long rant here about how when I was a systems programmer with IBM, I would have a security program in the installation and I would transfer all of the security definitions from my old system to the new system before even bringing it up for testing. I mean, this is just second nature. How could these bozos (with an apology to Bozo the clown here) overlook sumpin’ that basic?
“It’s really hard to go back and fix the security around it because security wasn’t built into it,” said Kennedy, chief executive of TrustedSec. “We’re talking multiple months to over a year to at least address some of the critical-to-high exposures on the website itself.”
How basic is that? On a project this critical, security should have been one of the first considerations. People are gonna have to input their SSN’s and their Medicare numbers in this system. The SSN, along with the Medicare number, is Sacred Data. Hello identity thieves. On top of that, the system will store private medical information. It ain’t gonna be very private is it?
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw the implementation of the website, the components used to build the site are compliant with standards set by Federal security authorities.
Obviously, those standards ain’t very high.
“The privacy and security of consumers’ personal information are a top priority for us. Security testing happens on an ongoing basis using industry best practices to appropriately safeguard consumers’ personal information,” said the spokesperson.
Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. Blah. Blah. Blah. Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit! Here’s an idea. Let’s store Obungler’s stuff on healthcare.gov. Yannow, stuff like his school transcripts, birth certificate (the one he released was phony), financial info from Occidental (Did he get financial assistance as a foreign student?), and other stuff he’s hiding. Howza ’bout Flipper’s service record that he promised to release? Let’s store that on healthcare.gov. They’d fix the security flaws yesterday.
Another online security expert—who spoke at last week’s House hearing and then on CNBC—said the federal Obamacare website needs to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch. Morgan Wright, CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations said: “There’s not a plan to fix this that meets the sniff test of being reasonable.”
And while we’re at it, let’s rewrite Obummercare from scratch like legislation is supposed to be done. That includes hearings and input from the other party. Instead, Oblunder and the Dimocrats wanted a law so badly that they used legislative tricks to ram this bill, a bill the American public didn’t want, down the throats of the American people. Now, we have people losing their insurance and being forced to buy more expensive policies that they don’t want, don’t need, and cannot afford. If it just happened to Oboner supporters it wouldn’t bother me, but unfortunately, the rest of the country has to suffer from this crap.
Obumbler and the Dimocrata gave us a “fix” for a nonexistent problem that has increased the cost of health insurance, will increase the deficit, will lead to massive identity theft, and will make healthcare worse.
This whole IT project has been amateur hour on display from start to finish. Almost four years and we get this dreck? You really have to work hard to screw up this badly. And with this colossal clusterfuck on display, no one has been fired yet? Sebelius still has her job? At least Bush Fired “Brownie” after Katrina.
This is gonna be worse than Katrina with people losing their health insurance, people having to pay more for health insurance, death panels (Sarah Palin was right), the Medicaid expansion which will increase deficits, the identity thefts, and who knows what else coming down the pike since no one bothered to read the bill. “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it”, said exSpeaker Blinky. That has got to be one of the dumbest things any politician has ever said about any legislation. And Sarah Palin is the dumb one? If a Republican had said that, he/she would have been laughed at and mocked for weeks, but since it was a Dimocrat, the LSM, which is the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party, passed on the ridicule and mocking that should have occurred. The medical equipment tax has cost jobs as has the insurance mandate upon business which has seen full time jobs become part time jobs and part time workers laid off.
How’s that hopey changey stuff workin’ out for ya?
Elections have consequences. Remember that next November.