[Paul R.]

Actually, I found McAfee's concerns more troubling than Oster's:

"Their bank accounts are going to be emptied not just by hackers but by the exchanges themselves because there are no controls,” McAfee said, “there are no security points that can guarantee the security of our data.”

This brings up an issue that occurred to me earlier: While I doubt the Chinese would want to crash the U.S. economy, and probably the same could be said for Russia -- it's not in their best interest at present, the same cannot be said of Iran, North Korea, etc.

1) Could a large scale, sophisticated operation "vacuum out" or otherwise steal enough funds, fast enough, from enough peoples' accounts, to disrupt the U.S. economy? I tend to think "probably not", but others likely have a better informed opinion.

2) Could a large scale attempt per "1" above, even if only partially successful, create enough panic in the US to disrupt its economy? Here I tend to think "quite possibly so". This then might become a matter of immediate economic security, if not national security.

Opinions?

[fireman15]

Your post is dead on. No one who has shared their information with this bungled up mess should ever have any expectation that it will ever be secure ever again. Any entity that has been following this debacle with malicious intent from North Korea to the Russian Mafia most likely already has the ability to create serious havoc on those who have “signed up”.

This website was “designed” with the intent to create the largest database of personal information ever assembled. In today's society information is power. We are already seeing from the O’Keefe videos that the lefties know this and are already trying to exploit it in illegal ways.

It is so much like most thefts. We had a large number of 3-phase electric motors valued at approximately $40,000; copper thieves stole them smashed them to pieces and sold the scrap for a couple hundred dollars. The proportion of damage that the Obamacare website potentially could do to citizens and the country is way out of proportion to the value this database has to Obama and the Dems. But like copper thieves they don't care one bit.

Those in possession of the database that is planned to be created could absolutely use it to destroy our entire economic infrastructure. It might just be common criminals, but as you say an adversarial country could absolutely use it to disrupt our entire economic infrastructure. And believe me they thought of it long before the infamous “roll-out”.