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PPACA/Obamacare Website Developed in Part by Programmers in India

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @11:30AM   
from the you-get-what-you-pay-for dept.

mrbluze writes

"In the ongoing fallout from the problematic Obamacare website launch, John McAfee gave his perspective on the troubled project as reported in Day On The Day:

'The company used Indian programmers—in India—to code using Java Script. On the user's computer…Just bizarre,' he said.

McAfee also pointed out security flaws in the website, and those flaws are in addition to the scammers who will build fake websites just to get personal information. He said the hacker aspect was only one of the problems in 'an error ridden system.'"

[Ed. Note] Now that individuals will be more or less compelled to sign up, what implications will this have on information security?

• What does that even mean? What does that even mean? (Score: 5, Insightful) by mtrycz on Sunday February 16 2014, @01:12PM

  by mtrycz (60) on Sunday February 16 2014, @01:12PM (#251)

  How do you program with JavaScritp on a user's computer?

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• Re:What does that even mean? Re:What does that even mean? (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday February 16 2014, @01:18PM

  by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 16 2014, @01:18PM (#252) Journal

  That's what I was wondering. :)

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  • Re:What does that even mean? (Score: 1) by crutchy on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:21AM

    by crutchy (179) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:21AM (#1457) Homepage Journal

    maybe when users requested support, they had to launch a remote desktop to allow some developer in india to save a copy of the obamacare home page and insert some js hacks so that when the user opened the file it connected to the site to get to the next problem

    maybe obamacare server edition is closed source and the company that licensed it to the federal government told obama that his call is important and they will incorporate his suggestion to make the website work soon... till then they resort to working around the problem... one client at a time :-P

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• Re:What does that even mean? Re:What does that even mean? (Score: 5, Interesting) by Blackmoore on Sunday February 16 2014, @04:00PM

  by Blackmoore (57) on Sunday February 16 2014, @04:00PM (#274) Journal

  odd. comments are not showing up. after i submit
  perhaps i did not submit?
  anyway, when is the last time Macaffee looked at code? it is unlikely he even knows what javascript IS.

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  • Re:What does that even mean? (Score: 1) by similar_name on Sunday February 16 2014, @08:57PM

    by similar_name (71) on Sunday February 16 2014, @08:57PM (#302)

    I'm not sure what to think when John McAfee says something's 'just bizarre'

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