John McAfee Warns That Obamacare Website is Hacker Bait
John McAfee has sobered up and ditched the bimbos, at least for this interview with Fox News. He describes the Obamacare website as a poorly coded disaster that will allow hackers to interject themselves into the signup processes to steal your personal information and drain your bank account. He also describes a new technology he is inventing that will safeguard communications on the Internet in these days of NSA spying.
I’ve seen the Obamacare website. For some retarded reason the website developers put all of the code for the entire site onto a single leviathan of an HTML page. The single page alone is too long to load into a client system’s memory, which causes a bulk of the sluggishness. The real problem is that all of the codes are exposed to anyone who wants to read it.
Let me explain it this way using this very site as an example. When you visit my site, you load a short PHP page that outlines additional modules to be fetched upon request at the time of load. Some of those modules will be posts, either single posts, or at most, 20 posts. Many of those posts will request a photograph or an image from my image store, which is another module. I also have tiny PHP scripts that will load some ad banners, or fetch external content from another site’s RSS feed. And that’s it.
On the Obamacare website, you fetch everything at once on a single page, whether you need it or not. Every error module, every image, every health exchange from all of the participating states. All in all, about 400 MB of plain text alone. Its the worst coded website ever designed. The makers of the site have no experience in Web 2.0 coding at all.
McAfee is right about this being hacker bait. Since the code is exposed, it can easily be understood, including any vulnerabilities. Malware can be written to interject its own code to intercept interaction with this website and can therefore be used to steal your identity, your bank account info and more. Its not healthy.
I’m not too sure why McAfee thinks his new technology will protect the identities of its users. If the traffic crosses the internet it can be observed and tracked to a source IP address and then correlated with other normal traffic to identify the source users. Only by using a strong encrypted man-in-the-middle service could you protect the receiver of the information, but that might be enough to protect the end-to-end communications. I’m interested to see what he comes up with.
