{"id":19442,"date":"2013-11-14T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:00:04","slug":"obama-admin-downplaying-security-risks-on-healthcare-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19442\/obama-admin-downplaying-security-risks-on-healthcare-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Admin Downplaying Security Risks on Healthcare.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re thinking about using Healthcare.gov to shop for an Obamacare-approved insurance plan \u2013 wait.<\/p>\n<p>The personal information you enter to create an account may be unprotected from hackers.<\/p>\n<p>That is the startling reality uncovered in testimony given by one of Healthcare.gov\u2019s top IT officials to House investigators. Apparently, a memo documenting several \u201copen high findings\u201d \u2013 including the website\u2019s vulnerability to identity thieves \u2013 was kept away from the person responsible for green-lighting its launch.<\/p>\n<p>As the plot thickens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2013\/11\/12\/memo-detailing-limitless-privacy-risks-on-obamacares-website-was-not-delivered-to-key-obamacare-it-official\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Avik Roy<\/a> asks several pertinent questions: \u201cFirst: Did Tony Trenkle intentionally conceal this critical information about high security risks from Henry Chao, or was it an accident? Second: Would Chao have recommended that the exchange go forward if he had been aware of high findings? Third: Did Marilyn Tavenner\u2014the head of CMS\u2014know about these issues when she issued the final go-ahead authorization? Fourth: <strong>Now that this information is public, why is the Obama administration encouraging people to enter their sensitive personal data into the non-secure healthcare.gov website?<\/strong>\u201d (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n<p>Why indeed?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that there is such a rush to spike Healthcare.gov\u2019s enrollment numbers that Obama administration officials are willing to overlook the potential risk to millions of Americans\u2019 private information?<\/p>\n<p>It brings a whole new ominous meaning to the warning <em>buyer beware<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re thinking about using Healthcare.gov to shop for an Obamacare-approved insurance plan \u2013 wait. The personal information you enter to create an account may be unprotected from hackers. That is the startling reality uncovered in testimony given by one of Healthcare.gov\u2019s top IT officials to House investigators. Apparently, a memo documenting several \u201copen high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3507,3308,4340,1829,35,801,826],"class_list":["post-19442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-avik-roy","tag-health","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19447,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions\/19447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}