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healthcare.gov vulnerability?
If they at some later stage got found out to have massaged the data they
would just blame it on some office intern who would then be fired and claim
it was a statistical fault, politicians only get the where they are by
lying, blaming others for their failures, being able to gaslight the public
and being able to perform a complete u-turn on a subject and flat out deny
it to your face they had done so.
Many people forget that politicians have no spine, morals or inclination to
tell the truth, especially when the opposite with assist their position.
I have no experience of the system, but is it possible to sign a family up
with one session, because I can see them easily adjusting it so instead of
one signup they've got 5 etc
From: cypherpunks [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jim
bell
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 6:29 PM
To: Steve Furlong
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: healthcare.gov vulnerability?
From: Steve Furlong <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:36 AM, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Might somebody (potentially a supporter of Obama and/or Obamacare) have
>> deliberately 'spammed' it with fake signups, simply to get the number of
>> such signups increased?
>Possible, I suppose, but why bother? They could just make up numbers and
they'd be repeated as gospel by the l>apdogs, lickspittles, and fellow
travellers. ref practically every other number coming from the US federal
and >state governments.
True, but I think they'd prefer to (later on) be able to blame some
unknown-named and unidentifiable 'hacker-types' than to implicate
themselves. ("I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in
here!")
This tactic wouldn't be useful at all if follow-on data (like actually-paid
accounts) were released. Probably this explains why those numbers remain
elusive even today.
Jim Bell
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