Obamacare Failure: Time To Blame Hackers

reply to post by burntheships

Now consider that this site is located at The Terremark Data Center
in Culpeper Virginia, is this not a red flag?

Please forgive my ignorance and naivitee. Why is it's location a red flag?

Syrian ? Nah..
Just some whiz kids hacker paid by the Koch Brothers, Insurance giants, and the NRA.
Of course that group would NEVER do something like that, would they ?
I mean it's not like an entire political party would throw a tantrum just because a vetted by the Supreme Court law was passed.

reply to post by windword


Ok. Starters :
“If there were a more secure location, you wouldn’t be able to find it.”

But, what is the point of that if the site is a security risk;
why a secure data center but not a secure (web) site?

That is the red flag.

What good is a 10-foot-high fence topped with barbed wire standing at
the outer edge of a 150-foot security perimeter with large earthen berms
if skiddies can enter the back door?

The front entrance to the facility is protected by a
14-inch thick wall of solid concrete. All staff and visitors
must pass through an enclosed “man trap” and several layers
of biometric security before entering the facility. **

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Syrian ? Nah..
Just some whiz kids hacker paid by the Koch Brothers, Insurance giants, and the NRA.
Of course that group would NEVER do something like that, would they ?
I mean it's not like an entire political party would throw a tantrum just because a vetted by the Supreme Court law was passed.

Yeah right. Pretty much like when the democrats first blamed the GOP for war dialing the site and flooding the phone lines to keep people from getting through. Give me a break.

A more believable scenario is the administration calling the NSA and saying " Hey, how about routing a DDOS attack through Syria to our web site so we don't look so bad."

Notwithstanding the fact that the site doesn't hardly work anyway.

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Syrian ? Nah..
Just some whiz kids hacker paid by the Koch Brothers, Insurance giants, and the NRA.
Of course that group would NEVER do something like that, would they ?
I mean it's not like an entire political party would throw a tantrum just because a vetted by the Supreme Court law was passed.

LMAO...I was wondering how long 'til someone came in and claimed GOP hackers did it.

I mean its not like an entire political party would pass a crappy law that has a POS website as its portal, would they?

Bassago
In light of the obamacare websites colossal failure the administration has blamed pretty much everyone it can think of to pass the buck. When trying to determine truth from spin it's nice to get validation of your sources and once again ZeroHedge comes through.

Obamacare Data Hub Crashes For Second Time In Three Days, Verizon Blamed Again
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2013 05:28

The first and last time a critical data center for Obamacare crashed this past Sunday night, leading to healthcare.gov becoming completely inaccessible.

Once the Verizon wildcard is used a few more time, ostensibly every single day allowing the Obama administration's apparatchiks an explanatory loophole why Obamacare enrollment is in the single digits, then come the Syrian hackers of course.

Now for todays news.

Back in October, when Obamacare's birthing problems first became evident, and when healthcare.gov was revealed as the best website ever built... using ForTran... we suggested that it was only a matter of time before Obama blames the evil, terroristy hackers of the world and mostly of Syria. Moments ago, that just happened.

U.S. CYBERSECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS AWARE OF ONE ATTEMPTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK ON HEALTHCARE.GOV

Good old administration: predictable to a fault. Now go get those evil, terroristy hackers.

ZeroHedge

Do you know what a denial of service attack is? DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are intended to make a website/host/resource inaccessible to users, typically by consuming some sort of resource. A DDoS could be something as simple as using a large botnet to packet flood. It's not even necessary for the attack to be launched at a site directly--a lot of recent attacks have been conducted by taking out the DNS servers and preventing user's computers from resolving the site's hostname to an IP address.

It has nothing to do with compromised user accounts or data.

A lot of high profile websites have been the targets of DDoS attacks and it's entirely plausible that healthcare.gov has been. I'd be willing to bet that given the resources, some of the people in this very thread would happily do it.

There's a huge difference between a site being the victim of "hackers" due to a DDoS attack and a site being "hacked."

reply to post by theantediluvian

Do you know what a denial of service attack is?

A lot of high profile websites have been the targets of DDoS attacks and it's entirely plausible that healthcare.gov has been.

I'd be willing to bet that given the resources, some of the people in this very thread would happily do it. There's a huge difference between a site being the victim of "hackers" due to a DDoS attack and a site being "hacked."

First off yes I know what a DDoS attack is.

ATS has suffered quite a few as well if memory serves. They didn't blame a few bugs in the new ATS 5.3 roll out on cyber attacks though. ZeroHedge predicted the cyber threat blame game 2 weeks ago before it happened. I suppose next you may say they are probably behind it?

You did just (somewhat) accuse ATS members of being willing to do just that as well. I can only speak for myself and say no, I wouldn't. But then we wouldn't really need to anyway, since it's broken.

You have proof that this is actually a DDOS attack and not just the stupid thing breaking all of its own?

I mean proof beyond the government's word, of course. We all know what that's worth.

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I mean it's not like an entire political party would throw a tantrum just because
a vetted by the Supreme Court law was passed.

And you think that the SCOTUS judges are beyond reproach?
See your signature for a good idea of how to identify them.