McAfee: Obamacare Is a ‘Hacker’s Wet Dream’

'I predict the loss of income, for the millions of Americans who will lose their identities'

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 2, 2013 8:50 pm
McAfee Anti Virus Software founder John McAfee criticized the confusing and insecure online apparatus being used by various states to implement Obamacare exchanges Wednesday on Cavuto.
McAfee said the web aspect of Obamacare is “seriously bad” and “somebody made a grave error” not centralizing the system such that a consumer could go to one page and and see all of the “legitimate” health insurance brokers.
Instead, McAfee warned, any hacker can create a page posing as a health insurance broker and elicit personal information from unassuming consumers:

JOHN MCAFEE: Seriously bad, somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program, but in implementing the web aspect. It for example anybody can put up a web pain, and claim — web page and claim to be a broker for this system, there is no central place where I can go, and say, here are all of the legitimate brokers, or examiner for all of the state, and pick and choose one. Instead, any hacker can put a web site up, make it look competitive, and because of the nature of the system, this is health care, they can ask you the most intimate questions, you are freely going to answer them, my social security number? First date. Birth date.

NEIL CAVUTO: Once you have those two, then you’re off to the races.

MCAFEE: This is not something to software can solve, who idiot put this system out there and did not create a central depository. There should be one web site run guy the government, you can click on the web site and then it will take you to the agents, this is insane, I predict the loss of income, for the millions of Americans who will lose their identities, you can imagine some retired laid in Utah — retired laid in Utah with $75,000 in the bank saving her whole life, having it wiped out in one day because she signed up for Obamacare, this is going to happen millions of times, this is a hacker’s wet dream, I cannot believe they did this.

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