McAfee Antivirus founder: “What idiot put this system out there?”

Hot Air ^ | October 3,2013 | ERIKA JOHNSEN

[Hojczyk]

Oh, it’s seriously bad. Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program but in simply implementing the web aspect of it. 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 — this is health care, after all — they can ask you the most intimate questions, and you’re freely going to answer them. What’s my Social Security number? My birth date? …

Here’s the problem. It’s not something software can solve. 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’s $75,000 dollars in the bank, saving her whole life — having it wiped out 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 cannot believe that they did this. … ObamaCare itself is the loosest of all. You can imagine the type of information: Medical records, personal issues, psychological issues. I mean, the government’s going to know everything in the world about everyone very soon.

[Iron Munro]

Does anybody know where you apply to be a “navigator” ? I think it might be fun.

Try the local SEIU office.

Unless you are an Illegal Alien you will need a certified birth certificate, a government issued photo ID, and your voter registration showing you are a registered democrat.

Good luck.

"You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat"

-- Claire Wolfe

[jeffc]

I think it was the Dems intention all along for this to be a fustercluck.

First, blame the Repubs for anything that goes wrong, and then demand complete government control of healthcare and more money to do it.

[jeffc]

John McAfee is a scam artist and always was. So are many, many of the others in the same business, but John was the first bandit.

Agree.

McAfee's bloated infestation software is horrible and difficult for the average user to remove. Norton's stuff was OK until he sold out to Symantic (I don't blame him, I would've too).

[ducttape45]

“Wow” is an understatement............

[Pajamajan]

Hackers- just another of the 100 billion things that are wrong with O Care.

But it's all OK because the important thing is that the politicians are exempt. Thank the Lord for that. We can't have anything interfering with them as they exert their control over us.

Oh look- our generous Overlords have provided a phone number for us peasants to call with our concerns

It's 1 800 FUC-KYO.

Nothing to worry about.

[sportutegrl]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/untangling-obamacare-s-web-glitches.html

According to the 12th comment on this article, apparently a CANADIAN company, CGI out of Montreal got the contract.

[publius911]

As such, he's uniquely qualified to comment on this, possibly the biggest scam yet perpetrated.

Oh, I don't know.
Global Warming/Carbon Credits is in a virtual tie.

[khelus]

Words fail me Ace. Are they [b]really[/b] that dumb? How the hell could they not considered the fact that you have to have a way of validating entities that are a part of the system, and not just someone trolling for info to use for nefarious purposes?

Your question assumes that their goal was well functioning and secure web sites.

A great deal, if not all of the programming has been done by the 'brightest and best' off shore and 'guest workers' aka the cheapest hired by political cronies on the state level.

Schlafly has some examples here.

[sportutegrl]

visceralrebellion in reply to A Smith 5 hours ago A company called CGI out of Montreal was contracted to do the website/front end. They got the contract in December 2011. While the feds didn't build it, they DID give the go-ahead to go live with it. My guess is, CGI warned them it wasn't ready for prime time and the feds refused to listen because to them, it's about politics. I have no doubt that CGI is freaking out over the serious negative public exposure. Anyway, there are a few articles out there listig CGI as the exchange website developers.

Copy of the original comment to the McArdle article at Bloomberg.

[zeugma]

One of the few articles of his that I haven’t read. Thanks! Both he and Steyn are extraordinary writers.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I hadn’t thought of this, but he’s right.

Ditto.

And oh yeah. Hey Obama, 1-800-F***-YOU

[LucyT]

. . . . Check out article.

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>>>>What is pathetic is that they have to share client information on a spreadsheet. This tells me the status of their readiness after three years of preparing. A bunch of technically illiterates are in charge.

I can not think of one reason why there would be a full list of client info with SSN on spreadsheets. Scary as hell.

It is dumb and dumber with your medical information.

39 posted on Thursday, October 03, 2013 3:47:22 AM by BushCountry

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Also, everyone who has medical records will see their past entered into the databases for all to see.

Once in the system it will never be deleted or reversed. Once identities are stolen, given, or outed, the ID theft will never end.

Each person effected will endure a lifetime of insecurity and financial difficulty because that information will be sold 1000-times over and used effectively to enrich thieves. There is no reverse.
Thanks Obama!

40 posted on Thursday, October 03, 2013 3:55:07 AM by MaxMax<<<<

[Hardraade]

So he is :).

[Hardraade]

Your personal data has all been given to Iran.

[Cheerio]

This is all intentional, of course,

Of course it is all by design - all the faster we will march to the much loved SINGLE PAYRE MEDICAID SYSTEM.

[Pollster1]

Considering how dysfunctional the official web sites are, I imagine my good friend in Nigeria is getting ready to roll out his system within days.

[griswold3]

And that’s why I believe he knows of which he is speaking.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Hojczyk.

... what idiot put this system out there and did not create a central depository? ...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’s $75,000 dollars in the bank, saving her whole life -- having it wiped out 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 cannot believe that they did this.

It's all part of Zero's Reparations agenda, but he actually got the idea from a member of the Nigerian royal family.

[Kenny Bunk]

The Obama "Administration" is in and of itself a misnomer.

There is no administration of anything. Team Obama's "Plan" is classic Passive Aggression. That is they never intended to do anything but place themselves in power under a figurehead for whom they plan no action. The job assigned to Obama: make scripted replies in reaction to events, and to blame the events on others.

This "Administration" is merely the CHAOS Phase of a revolution. It is intended to collapse existing systems.

Because there is no coherent opposition, it is succeeding.

[Old Sarge]

This "Administration" is merely the CHAOS Phase of a revolution. It is intended to collapse existing systems.

Exactly right.