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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 12:51 AM Oct 2013

Cavuto and McAfee...stupid and stupider

NEIL CAVUTO: What do you make [of Obamacare]? Obviously, a lot of people have been focusing on the law but not really cognizant of the privacy part of the law, and how hackers could have a field day with it. Is it that bad?

JOHN McAFEE: Oh, it is seriously bad. 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, 'Okay, 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. What’s my Social Security number? My birth date? What are my health issues?

[CROSSTALK]

McAFEE: Well, here's the problem -- it's not something software can solve. 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 one day because she signed up for Obamacare. And believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This is a hacker's wet dream. I cannot believe that they did this.

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CAVUTO: So once the government gets up and running, and we trust it is up and running again, it not as if any of these large agencies, now health care, are any less inclined to still snoop, still hack, still encourage other hackers?

McAFEE: Of course not, they are going to continue to do this as long as we give them the power to do so. And ObamaCare itself is the loosest of all. You can imagine the type of information -- medical records, personal issues, psychological issues. I mean, the government’s going to know everything in the world about everyone very soon.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/03/john_mcafee_on_obamacare_this_is_a_hackers_wet_dream.html

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John McAfee obviously is clueless when it comes to the ACA so that fits in quite well over at the echo-chamber.

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Cavuto and McAfee...stupid and stupider (Original Post) SHRED Oct 2013 OP
McAfee is a bit wigged out anyway.... VanillaRhapsody Oct 2013 #1
 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
1. McAfee is a bit wigged out anyway....
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 01:08 AM
Oct 2013

don't they suspect him for the murder of his neighbor somewhere? And he had all sorts of Conspiracy Theories about people being after him or something like that? Wonder what became of that?

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