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posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @11:30AM   Printer-friendly
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?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by unitron on Monday February 17 2014, @12:04AM

    by unitron (70) on Monday February 17 2014, @12:04AM (#345) Journal

    ...to the glorious, all-wonderful, cure for whatever ails you, private sector?

    And the result were less than perfect?

    Hang on a minute, let me dig around, I'm sure I left my shocked face lying around here somewhere.

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    something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
  • (Score: 1) by crutchy on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:30AM

    by crutchy (179) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:30AM (#1463) Homepage Journal

    i think you'll find that all government contractors are extremely efficient... at getting the most out of the governments they rort, but if the government keeps filling up the pig trough, pigs will keep coming to feed from it.

    surely you weren't foolish enough to believe that companies that contract to governments (anywhere) actually care about delivering a decent outcome? that would require governments to give a shit about a decent outcome in the first place, or at least know what a decent outcome is.

    governments are inept at managing projects of all sorts. at least the private sector has some concept of risk and consumers can vote with their wallets; governments on the other hand are like monopoly corporations that answer to nobody and can't be taken to court.