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It's a Windows flaw.

A bomb symbol with burning fuse gets larger and larger on the screen than finally explodes, and says, "you're too poor and too stupid to get your own insurance, loser, I am going to tell everyone! HaHaHaHa!"

Then there's a picture of Bill Gates and a waving flag playing the star spangled banner.

"Health insurer Centene Corp said on Monday it is missing six hard drives containing the personal and health information of about 950,000 people."

"Centene has been very strong in landing new contracts with states offering health insurance plans under the ACA that are growing sales and net income at a rapid rate."

curious2 says

The federal government's HealthCare.gov website continues to be riddled with flaws that expose confidential user data to the public, a security expert testified Thursday at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

There are consequences for undermining the U.S. technology workforce through outsources and H1B visas. Technology is hard to do correct. For good results you need people who are dedicated, and that only happens if the field provides security, high income, and respect.

The United States could have cornered the entire technology sector created multigenerational STEM families in which parents pass on their knowledge and experience to their children. Instead, the greed of corporate executives and bribed politicians sold off this sector to China, India, and other undeveloped nations. We are now reaping the consequence of 30 years of undermining highly skilled technology workers. Transnational corporations chose to weaken the bargaining power of STEM professionals and so we now have less skilled STEM professionals, and this is only going to get worse as fewer intelligent people enter STEM. No intelligent, hard working individual enters a field in which the workers have little and waning bargaining power. STEM will follow the path of manufacturing unless federal policy changes drastically.

Play in the cloud why doncha?

Dan8267 says

There are consequences for undermining the U.S. technology workforce....

Your comment reminded me of three examples of dedicated and patriotic professionals (including in technology) who were undermined even more dramatically: Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe. Whenever dealing with the Obamneycare website and process, I cannot help feeling that an essential part of the mandatory program design is to require me to surrender all rights to privacy and redress, under the watchful eyes of Total Information Awareness. Once you submit your mandatory "consent", and so long as they claim in Orwellian fashion that everything they're doing is a "benefit" to you, they needn't worry about the rights you have relinquished. Then, when I see a server error, I can only wonder where and to whom they have erroneously served all the information they required me to give them.

curious2 says

Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe

Great video. The only part that upset me was the guy saying that Snowden was "becoming a traitor" and should be prosecuted after the people involved in Prism because Snowden continued to release information beyond the illegal actions. I disagree because
1. Snowden had to release everything, even more than just obviously illegal stuff, because he cannot perfectly decide how much is illegal and not.
2. The great good Snowden did outweighs all the negative consequences and there was absolutely no other way justice could prevail other than having all the information released.
3. It is better to compromise military and political secrets than it is to allow government to act above the law and without accountability. The risk and consequence of a Hitler rising to power far outweighs the revelation of ANY truth no matter how embarrassing.

curious2 says

Once they have your mandatory "consent"

Forced "consent" should be considered fraudulent, carrying no legal weight, and evidence of criminal intent. Requiring a person to give up any right to sign up for health insurance and then requiring that they do is a violation of due process of the law under the 5th Amendment. We need to start treating violations of the Constitution as felonies just like violations of any other major law. Politicians, government agents, and judges who violate the Constitution need to go to prison like any other felon.