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Per the Obamacare Web Disaster: Many of you know I develop websites just like this for a living. It's what I do.I am here to tell you, given three years that they were given, if I had the following team: One artistic Design person, One skilled DBA, one skilled Security guy, one Web/Data integration specialist, three skilled developers (2 on .NET and one on jQuery), one Business Analyst who knew the legislation, and one Policies and Procedures person (for the ATO and C&A certifications and documentation) and me as Architect, I could have had this thing deployable and humming along...

Not only is healthcare.gov at risk, it may already have been compromised, a security expert testified before the Senate. “Hackers are definitely after it,” said David Kennedy, CEO of information security firm TrustedSEC before a House Science, Space, and Technology committee hearing on security concerns surrounding the problematic Healthcare.gov website. “And if I had to guess, based on what I can see … I would say the website is either hacked already or will be soon.” One key problem facing Healthcare.gov is that security wasn’t built into the site from the very beginning, he said -- an opinion shared by...