From: Steve Furlong <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:36 AM, jim bell <[email protected]>wrote:
>> Might somebody (potentially a supporter of Obama and/or Obamacare) have
>> deliberately 'spammed' it with fake signups, simply to get the number of
>> such signups increased?
>Possible, I suppose, but why bother? They could just make up numbers and
>they'd be repeated as gospel by the l>apdogs, lickspittles, and fellow
>travellers. ref practically every other number coming from the US federal and
>>state governments.
True, but I think they'd prefer to (later on) be able to blame some
unknown-named and unidentifiable 'hacker-types' than to implicate themselves.
("I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!")
This tactic wouldn't be useful at all if follow-on data (like actually-paid
accounts) were released. Probably this explains why those numbers remain
elusive even today.
Jim Bell
