Hacker's Delight

Why do I believe this?

____ *Have you seen this?*____ *"Hacker's **Delight**"*____ ____ Caution is warranted:____ ____ On Fox Business Network?s ?Cavuto? on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare ?is a hacker?s delight? that will cause ?the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities.? ____ For starters, McAfee said the way it is set up makes it possible for fake websites be set up to fool people to think they?re signing up for Obamacare. ____ ?It?s seriously bad,? McAfee said. ?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.?? ____ ?Instead, any hacker can put a website up, make it look extremely competitive, and because of the nature of the system ? and this is health care, after all ? they can ask you the most intimate questions, and you?re freely going to answer them,? he continued. ?What?s my Social Security number? My birth date? What are my health issues?? ____ According to McAfee, there?s not a quick fix ? and as long as it set up this way, it could be a playground for computer hackers. ____ ?Here?s the problem: It?s not something software can solve,? McAfee continued. ?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 has $75,000 dollars in the bank, savings of her whole life, having it wiped out in one day because she signed up for Obamacare. And believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This is a hacker?s delight. I mean I cannot believe that they did this.?____

Reply to
Stormin Mormon
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Because you're pretty dim and believe all the ridiculous Tea Leaf propaganda?

Reply to
harryagain

Moron. Are you familiar with the internet?

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Frank

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That?s why I never buy anything when it first comes out. I always wait un til they get all the bugs out.

Reply to
recyclebinned

True, but if it was centralized hackers could do a host file edit (via malware), spoof the DNS or execute a MITM attack, and harvest the same data. OTOH centralized is better. Keep the best IT techs at the main server. Is this about ObamaCare, or hacking ? Adobe, AVG and Avast were recently hacked. Nothing is hack-proof. FWIW

Reply to
Shadow

Maybe because the people doing the Obamacare site can't get even the simpler things right. It would be understandable if this was in the early days of computers and the internet. This sounds like it is pretty much like following a marked trail, not trailblazing.

Reply to
Dean Hoffman

Per snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com:

My rule is "Never buy release x.0 of *anything*.".

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(PeteCresswell)

Per Shadow:

The part of the interview that I picked up on was the part about lacking a central site that knows where the valid sites are. His contention was that, without that central site, it becomes easier to set up look-alike sites to harvest innocent people's data.

I claim no knowledge of internet security - but what he said sounded logical. I'd just like to hear it from some other sources.

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(PeteCresswell)

It's logical because it's true. A central site would be more secure, because it would (hopefully) be staffed by competent IT guys, not some local guy that just happens to be the sheriffs brother. :) But it would be trivial for pro hackers using malware or MITM attacks to deceive inexperienced users into thinking they were logging into the central site. Attachment = don't open without a Jotti scan. Invalid Certificate = don't accept Antivirus = keep up to date etc IOW, Safe Hex []'s

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Shadow

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Data should have been encrypted.

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Shadow

For sure re: other sources. Some people might recall McAfee was wanted for murder and was a "bath salt" abuser, at least according to some accounts.

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Reply to
Robert Green

Total BS but it's not BS about McAfee being wanted for murder.

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philo 

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