Oregon’s Top IT Official Recommends Scrapping Obamacare Website

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oregon’s top IT official is recommending Cover Oregon scrap the state’s disastrous online health insurance exchange that failed to sign up a single resident, The Oregonian today reported. Alex Pettit, Oregon’s Chief Information Officer, this morning recommended to a 16-member technical advisory committee that Cover Oregon—the state insurance exchange that is […]

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Turkey Threatens to Block More Websites

Turkey has already blocked Twitter and YouTube, and more could be on the way. According to the Reuters news agency, government sources in Ankara said on Thurday the country could block access to other social media platforms if users publish recordings or documents which “threaten national security.” Earlier, Turkish telecoms regulators moved to block YouTube […]

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Carafano at SXSW Tech Conference: "If You Care About Freedom, Care About Cybersecurity"

If you care about freedom and prosperity, you ought to care about cybersecurity. That’s what Heritage’s James Carafano told an audience at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. Cybersecurity, a growing issue of concern around the world, was a hot topic at the nation’s most popular tech and innovation […]

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Obamacare’s Relationship Status? ‘It’s Complicated,’ Biden Says

Speaking in Minneapolis yesterday about the Obamacare rollout, Biden said, “We didn’t want this to start off as shaky as it did. But it’s complicated.” For many years, Facebook offered a short range of relationship options, including “it’s complicated.” Ever since, “it’s complicated” has been the Facebook status that both says nothing and fits every situation. […]

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Cyber Victory: Hamas Twitter Accounts Suspended

Hamas’s military wing faced a front of another kind last week: a cyber war. Several of the terror organization’s twitter accounts have been suspended since January 9 without prior notice, according to various news outlets – and Hamas is not happy about it. The accounts: @AlqassamBrigade, @qassambrigades, @qassambrigade, and @qasambrigade – all twitter handles for the media […]

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HealthCare.gov Contractor Built Faulty Gun Registry for Canada

J. Emilio Flores/La Opinion/Newscom It turns out notorious government contractor CGI is no stranger to glitch-filled rollouts. HealthCare.gov isn’t the first time the Canadian company has received millions of taxpayer funds to create a dysfunctional product. According to The Washington Times’ Emily Miller, CGI has a record of failure dating back to the 1990s, when […]

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Targeted in Internet Attack

Newscom The vulnerability of the Internet as a journalistic tool has been illustrated again this month with an ongoing distributed denial-of-service attack on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague. Computers at the U.S.-funded broadcasting services, which reach audiences in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, have been disrupted for the past two […]

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Latest Obamacare Bombshells: HealthCare.gov Far from Complete, and Payment System Not Built

You would think that it couldn’t get much worse for the Obamacare rollout, but a few new bombs dropped this week. Payment System for Obamacare Not Built Yet In a House hearing yesterday, when asked what remains to be done in work on the federal marketplace (HealthCare.gov), Henry Chao, Obamacare’s top dog on IT, admitted […]

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