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BadGimp

(4,015 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:30 PM Nov 2013

need help refuting a Obamacare scare email

Got this from a friend today: (can anyone point me to a credible source to refute this?)

"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 dream” 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? < /span>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, saving 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 dream. I mean I cannot believe that they did this.”

So, instead of redistributing wealth from the middle class to welfare deadbeats, ObamaCare will redistribute that wealth to Internet thieves.Can you visualize the mob of fleeced ObamaCare customers forming from coast to coast? Now might be a good time to invest in tar, torches, feathers, and pitchforks to sell to the mad as hell people on the march who won't take it anymore.

Hope & Change, baby,"

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need help refuting a Obamacare scare email (Original Post) BadGimp Nov 2013 OP
I can. Scuba Nov 2013 #1
isn't McAfee on the run from the cops on a murder charge? rurallib Nov 2013 #2
Read about John McAfee Bluestar Nov 2013 #3
MacAfee is a loon NMDemDist2 Nov 2013 #4
Tell them to consider the source(s) lunasun Nov 2013 #5
And? sherihah Nov 2013 #6
HEALTHCARE.GOV dotGOV dotGOV dotGOV Sunlei Nov 2013 #7

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
2. isn't McAfee on the run from the cops on a murder charge?
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:38 PM
Nov 2013

hiding out in central America or something?

Fox was throwing his name all over the place a week or 2 back when they discovered he was a bit -uh- indisposed.

sherihah

(11 posts)
6. And?
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:38 PM
Nov 2013

Someone can also set up a fake web site to also try amd trick you, that's why ypu look at the url. Also, a central website? How about healthcare.gov?

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