Thursday, February 13, 2014

"Belarus confirms software work for U.S. medical and insurance companies"

Up until now, most, if not all assurances by the administration, as to the efficacy of the ACA, better known as ObamaCare, have fallen short. That is not just the administration's detractors saying that. So Please, keep that in mind, as you read this story.
Software developed in the former Soviet state of Belarus is part of networks used by U.S. medical and insurance companies that are now part of President Barack Obama’s health care reform program, according to a senior official of a government technology park in Minsk...

Security concerns about foreign software and possibly malicious code from Belarus were raised inside the U.S. government last month...

Tsepkalo told a Russian radio program in June that one of “our clients” was the Department of Health and Human Services and that “we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform.”

“Our programmers wrote the program that appears on the monitors in all hospitals and all insurance companies—they will see the full profile of the given patient,” Tsepkalo told Voice of Russia Radio June 25.

The comments prompted the U.S. intelligence warning that malicious software from Belarus may have been implanted by state-controlled software engineers in Belarus, making the Healthcare.gov software vulnerable to cyber attack.

Asked about the Belarusian official’s comments, HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters did not directly address them.

In a statement, Peters said consumers who fill out online Healthcare.gov applications “can trust that the information that they are providing is protected by stringent security standards.”
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Washington Free Beacon via Bill Gertz tweet

6 comments:

bagoh20 said...

"In a statement, Peters said consumers who fill out online Healthcare.gov applications “can trust that the information that they are providing is protected by stringent security standards.”

Knowing what we now know about this administration, does anyone think they would say something different even if they knew damned well it was unsafe? Everyone knows it's not secure, unless you are an Obama voter, in which case you can be told any number of lies without it affecting your decisions or opinions. That's why you hear them say, "I would vote for him again", and even the ones who don't admit that mostly still would do it. Stuck on stupid.

Michael Haz said...

Are there NO companies in America that can do this work?

Amazon? Oracle? Microsoft? The companies that now write software for insurance companies? No one?

The utter incompetence of this administration in the Obamacare project is stunning.

chickelit said...

Michael Haz said...
Are there NO companies in America that can do this work?

There are, but those companies are bellyaching for more H1B visas. This is a workaround solution until we can get those folks a oneway ticket to San Jose and Seattle.

ricpic said...

SNAFU

In other words, what else did you expect?

Rabel said...

Best quote:

"However, Alexander Martinkevich, deputy director of Belarus’ High Technologies Park (HTP), said no Belarusian software companies took part in developing the Healthcare.gov system. “If we did, it would work from the first day of its launch,” Martinkevich said in an email."

Belarusian snark. My how we've fallen.

ken in tx said...

Remember, all government work is done by the lowest bidder, or somebody's brother-in-law. Which is this?