ObamaCrapCare Fails All Website Security Tests While Congress Merrily Goes Down The Road. Rome Is Burning And Congress and Obama Are Fiddling!!

Dying Man Gasps “I Hate Obamacare” as His Last Words

Published Mon, Jan 20th, 2014   Floyd Brown, Chief Political Analyst

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It’s official: Obamacare is burying America.

Thousands of people who once had health insurance are now uninsured. In fact, Obamacare has canceled more healthcare policies than it has written.

Meanwhile, job creation is way down, and the only new jobs out there are mostly part-time and low wage. Ask any business leader, “why?” and they’ll point to Obamacare.

Zerohedge.com reports that, “In January 2009, the number of ‘officially unemployed’ workers plus the number of Americans ‘not in the labor force’ was sitting at a grand total of 92.6 million. Today, that number has risen to 102.2 million. That means that the number of working age Americans that are not working has grown by close to 10 million since Barack Obama first took office.”

On top of that, security experts have concluded that Healthcare.gov is a hacker’s dream. If you want to suffer identity theft, a good plan is to enter all your personal information on the government’s Obamacare website.

But don’t worry… Capitol Hill’s brightest minds are on the case!

Just ask New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who told “Meet the Press” last month, “The president is working to fix it; we’re working in the Senate to fix it; we urge our Republican colleagues to join us in fixing it.”

Or are they? According to a report in The Weekly Standard, “Plans to fix Obamacare haven’t even been discussed at weekly Democratic Senate caucus meetings.”

They’ve “never talked about it in the caucus,” said Senator Pat Leahy.

Well, it’s pretty difficult to fix something if you don’t talk about how to fix it!

The problems keep getting worse each day, but our leaders in Washington – who have conveniently exempted themselves or, in the case of Congress, given themselves special subsidies – ignore the problems and hope they’ll go away. I guess it’s easy to look the other way when you’re immune to the trauma.

Who Needs Security?

Yet the recent revelation from security expert Kevin Mitnick regarding Healthcare.gov’s security flaws is even more damaging.

Before becoming a legitimate professional, Mitnick was once known as “Condor,” one of America’s most dreaded hackers and the most-wanted cyber criminal in America. He actually spent five years in prison, including 4.5 years before he even received a trial!

Amazingly, Mitnick also endured eight months in solitary confinement because U.S. government officials convinced a judge that Mitnick could “start a nuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”

But today Mitnick runs his own firm, Mitnick Security Consulting, which helps companies assess their security protocols.

After analyzing the Healthcare.gov website, Mitnick concluded that, “It’s shameful [that] the team that built the Healthcare.gov site implemented minimal, if any, security best practices to mitigate the significant risk of a system compromise.”

In a letter to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Mitnick wrote, “After reading the documents provided by David Kennedy that detailed numerous security vulnerabilities associated with the Healthcare.gov website, it’s clear that the management team did not consider security as a priority.”

David Kennedy, the CEO and Founder of TrustedSec LLC, backed up those comments when he testified before the committee.

Kennedy calls himself a “white hat hacker,” or someone who hacks to fix security issues. Amazingly, Kennedy believes that the Healthcare.gov website “may have already been hacked.”

But in spite of its myriad problems, Obamacare stumbles forward.

Republicans, under the leadership of John Boehner and Paul Ryan, continue to pour taxpayer dollars into this Frankenstein program. In fact, it’s Paul Ryan’s own $1.1-trillion Congressional 2014 fiscal budget that’s keeping Obamacare alive.

If ever there was an example of fiddling while Rome burns, we’re watching it. Such is the fate of being ruled by leaders who could care less about real people.

Your eyes on the Hill,

Floyd Brown

ObamaCrapCare Site Was Designed By Novices, It Does Not Even Try To Be Secure!

Put Your Information On Obamacare Site And A Hacker Will Have It In 4 Minutes

January 21, 2014 by Sam Rolley

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David Kennedy, the hacker who recently testified before Congress about Healthcare.gov’s many security failures, explained during a television appearance Sunday how he was able to compromise the Obamacare insurance exchange website in fewer than four minutes.

Speaking with FOX’s Chris Wallace, Kennedy explained that he was able to access more than 70,000 personal records on the Obamacare website via a standard Internet browser with little effort.

“And 70,000 was just one of the numbers that I was able to go up to and I stopped after that,” he said. “You know, I’m sure it’s hundreds of thousands, if not more, and it was done within about a four-minute time frame. So, it’s just wide open.”

“You can literally just open up your browser, go to this, and extract all this information without actually having to hack the website itself,” he said.

During Congressional testimony last week, Kennedy told lawmakers that the Obamacare website was obviously created with little concern for user privacy and is “100 percent” insecure.

“What we learned was that they had rushed through what we call the software development life cycle where they actually build the application,” he said on FOX. “So when you do that, security doesn’t really get integrated into it. And what happened with the rocky launch in October is they slapped a bunch of servers in trying to fix the website just to keep it up and running so that people could actually go and use it. The problem is they still didn’t imbed any security into it.”

“It’s not just myself that’s saying this website is insecure, it’s also seven other independent security researchers that also looked at the research I’ve done and came to the exact same conclusion,” he said.

In addition to security problems, questions about Obamacare’s solvency also continue to make big headlines as the White House continues to encourage Americans to sign up for the government healthcare program.

On the heels of news that the White House had failed to reach its youth enrollment goals last week, National Center for Policy Analysis CEO John Goodman restated his October warning that an Obamacare “death spiral” is very likely to occur.

The economist believes part of the problem is that many of the Americans willing to put up with the risks and headaches of signing up for Obamacare are the unhealthiest members of the population.

“Remember, everybody is facing the wrong price. And sick people are facing a price that’s well below the cost of their care. Young healthy people are being overcharged. And so they need lots of young healthy people to join so they can get the money to pay the bills for the sick people. And the younger people just aren’t buying it.

“Part of the problem, I think, is that it’s been so difficult for people to sign up, and so the only ones who’ve persevered — sometimes trying a hundred times — are people who really have serious health problems.”

Editor’s note: If you have bought or tried to buy health insurance through the Obamacare exchange, we want to hear from you. Please tell us about your experience. Was the site easy to access and easy to navigate? Were the prices you found what you expected or too high, or were they lower than you expected? Were the coverage options too inclusive, just right, not inclusive enough? Are you concerned about the security of the private information you submitted? Email your experience to freedomwatch@personalliberty.com. We’d love to hear from you your thoughts on Obamacare.