Posted on 12/03/2013 9:18:34 AM PST by topher
Cyber security experts told Congress today that the Obama administration should take Healthcare.gov offline until privacy vulnerabilities are addressed and detection capabilities are improved.
David Kennedy, a so-called “white hat hacker” who tests security flaws by hacking online systems to help identify weaknesses, warned that there are critical flaws and exposures “currently on the website that hackers could use to extract sensitive information.”
“The purpose of security isn’t to say, ‘Hey, we’re 100 percent impenetrable all the time,’ but can we detect the hackers in the very early stages of the life cycle of the attack, monitor that, and prevent the attacks from happening. And none of those are clearly being done on the Healthcare.gov website,” Kennedy said before the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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Hacking is now a patriot activity.
It was tongue in cheek mockery - their main efforts at security was to attempt to keep the public in general, and the customers in particular from knowing what they were being sold.
So yeah...it’s fraudulent.
Or put another way, the security put in place was directed against their enemies: the informed Public.
It shall be hacked, there’ll DOS attacks, thank your fellow hackers. (Fun for the whole family, just you wait and see.)
Injun barry
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