Computer Security Expert Claims he Hacked the ObamaCare Website in 4 Minutes
The hits just keep on coming for ObamaCare. It was less than two weeks ago that I highlighted the potential premium rate death spiral that ObamaCare faces due to the fact that only old and sick people are signing up for the program. Now it seems there are further security related concerns plaguing the site, as cyber-security expert David Kennedy recently claimed that “gaining access to 70,000 personal records of Obamacare enrollees via HealthCare.gov took about 4 minutes.”
It’s actually hard to be this incompetent if you tried. More from the Washington Times:
The man who appeared before Congress last week to explain the security pitfalls of HealthCare.gov took to Fox News on Sunday to explain just how easy it was to penetrate the website.
Hacking expert David Kennedy told Fox’s Chris Wallace that gaining access to 70,000 personal records of Obamacare enrollees via HealthCare.gov took about 4 minutes and required nothing more than a standard browser, the Daily Caller reported.
“And 70,000 was just one of the numbers that I was able to go up to and I stopped after that,” he said. “You know, I’m sure it’s hundreds of thousands, if not more, and it was done within about a 4 minute timeframe. So, it’s just wide open.”
“You can literally just open up your browser, go to this, and extract all this information without actually having to hack the website itself,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy testified before Congress Thursday that HealthCare.gov was “100 percent” insecure, Washington Free Beaconreported.
For some context on this very important issue, check out the video below:
Full article here.
If it wasn’t so ghastly and so utterly incompetent, I’d laugh my ass off about!
Luckily, I’m an old fart and don’t have to deal with it. I personally think we should disband the entire Federal Government, fire all the sycophants and suck-asses that are either doing or allowing this kind of thing to happen and start all over.
I’m more than sure that’s exactly what’s going to happen eventually through collapse of the system. The problem with that is that the Government Drones (Federal to local) will go down shooting (literally) to try and keep the status quo alive.. They’ll never do it.
With a little luck (and lot of long guns) we’d end up with 50 independent states, loosely gathered at some central point to insure cross-border trade and settle disputes —— oops! That’s what we had 238 years ago, wasn’t it?
I have no hope beyond another 4 – 6 years. That’ll work out just right for the Fourth Turning conclusion as far as my personal timing is concerned.
MA
I believe I heard that it cost more to build the Oreo website than the cost of WWII (not adjusted for inflation).
4 years to build
4 minutes to crack.
Seems about right.
The process for the government is really simple:
1. Identify a problem (or make one up).
2. Create a government solution to address the problem.
3. Lie to the American people about how the solution will work.
4. Have the lame stream media repeat the lie over and over.
5. Enact a law while pretending to get fierce opposition from the other party.
6. Assemble a gigantic bureaucracy populated by career paper-pushers and cronies with inflated salaries and benefits to administer the program.
7. Spend a shit load of money you don’t have and can’t possibly pay back.
8. Watch the “solution” exacerbate the original problem.
9. Find a scapegoat: the Chinese, capitalists, the weather, hoarders, speculators…
10. Go to Step 1 and repeat.
What part of Obamacare doesn’t meet this tried-and-true method of government overreach?
When will we all wake up as a species and realize not one of us has the right to rule over anyone of the rest of us. Government always in the last resort is a barrel of a gun pointed at you. Voluntaryism, the non-aggression principle and a true free market can provide any and all services government claims only it can provide. One only has to look objectively at the last coupla hundred years of force, coercion, tyranny and genocide for proof.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/failure-obamas-healthcaregov-website-poetic-justice-5411
I have no confidence that this abortion of a program will work. It’s a large handout to well connected corporations. It won’t solve anything.
The Dimocrats will tell you there’s nothing wrong with this website. If the human respiratory system required intentional thought there would be no Dimocrats, they would all fall over dead.