New York State Health Insurance site implemented with elementary security flaws, blames the whistleblower
Oopsy: NY State Health Insurance Website Let You Download Other Users' Private Info http://gothamist.com/2015/12/10/thanks_obama.php For an unknown period of time, anyone who logged onto the New York State health plan website had the ability to download a range of sensitive, private information belonging to other users. The incredible glitch was discovered by Robert Parks, a cofounder of Oyster, after he received an email last Saturday notifying him that he had a message from the New York State of Health website. - - - Screw those guys. And I'll add a "don't be a jerk" message to the author of that article, because a security flaw in a NY State site is not the responsibility of Obamacare/ACA, but of idiots in New York. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so. My opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
