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That was a quote from John McAfee, founder of McAfee, Inc. He said the online component of ObamaCare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans.”
Is he right? Is this thing so poorly executed that proper identity of users may not even being performed.
“It’s seriously bad. Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program but in simply implementing the web aspect of it. I mean, 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.’"
Hancock described the situation as similar to what happens when hackers conduct a distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on a website: they get large numbers of computers to simultaneously request information from the server that runs a website, overwhelming it and causing it to crash or otherwise stumble. "The site basically DDOS'd itself," he said.
IT experts say the architecture for the healthcare.gov web site is flawed.
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Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems. For instance, when a user tries to create an account on HealthCare.gov, which serves insurance exchanges in 36 states, it prompts the computer to load an unusually large amount of files and software, overwhelming the browser, experts said.
If they are right, then just bringing more servers online, as officials say they are doing, will not fix the site.
"Adding capacity sounds great until you realize that if you didn't design it right that won't help," said Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software quality analysis firm, and director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality. "The architecture of the software may limit how much you can add on to it. I suspect they'll have to reconfigure a lot of it."
That was a quote from John McAfee, founder of McAfee, Inc. He said the online component of ObamaCare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans.”
Is he right? Is this thing so poorly executed that proper identity of users may not even being performed.
I don't doubt at all there are lots of problems with the site. I have tried to get on about ten times since it opened. Once I got part way through it. The states that set up their own exchanges haven't had nearly the problems. I checked California and Washington with no problem. It does sound like from the Analysis article in Reuters that it could be fixed although I wonder how long it will take. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if was 2-3 weeks. Some people are happy about the foul up though..
And if we'd quit when our first 25 rockets blew up on he launch pad, we'd never had a space/missle defense program.
Technical glitches won't stop Obamacare. Neither will Republican footdragging.
So opening up American citizens to hackers gathering their personal information... well it's a noble sacrifice we must all make to further an 0bama policy that was not ready.
Got it.
BTW, they did not launch rockets if the engineers did not think they were ready. This is like strapping people into those rockets, knowing they were severely flawed, but doing it anyway to make the president look good.
And if we'd quit when our first 25 rockets blew up on he launch pad, we'd never had a space/missle defense program.
Technical glitches won't stop Obamacare. Neither will Republican footdragging.
thats not the issue and you know it. this administration had three years to get this up and going, and due to their incompetence we have this monstrosity. they didnt even do any beta testing before they went live with this system. had they have, they might have found a huge majority of the issues that corrected them before going live and dealt with the rest as they came up, not everything comes up in beta testing.
I don't know who their contractor was but I hope they are not getting paid for this. Like others said the state run exchanges are working from OK to very well. My own state was going to do a state exchange and then the nitwit Republicans decided to make a statement by cancelling the plans and defaulting to the federal exchange. Of course, we the people are paying the price for their political grandstanding.
Nonetheless, we have plenty of time to get it fixed and get America enrolled. So, in that respect, it still is a glitch.
And if we'd quit when our first 25 rockets blew up on he launch pad, we'd never had a space/missle defense program.
Technical glitches won't stop Obamacare. Neither will Republican footdragging.
Poor security design isn't a "glitch" it's incompetence, just like what spawned Obamacare in the first place.
Web security isn't a new field, we're well past "the first 25 rockets" stage, there is no excuse for this - especially with a virtually unlimited government budget to pay for the best software designers available.
Scalability for increased traffic means more than throwing more hardware at the problem, that won't solve the real issues any more than the democrats idea that throwing money at a problem will fix it.
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