“Okubo tried saying that if somebody had the BC# they could hack the HDOH computers.”
I must have missed that one.
Where did she say that?
That was in the Politifact article before Factcheck came out with the photos showing a BC#. If it’s not scrubbed from the web I could probably find it for you. A lot of those statements were scrubbed and can only be found in cached pages or where they were excerpted elsewhere.
Here’s a cached page that has the entire article. Last I knew that article was off the web.
http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/008271.html
Here’s what the article said, dated 11-01-08
“Bloggers and other skeptics also wonder why a large black rectangle appears next to the words “CERTIFICATE NO.”
Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said the blackened portion is a department file number that was redacted to prevent hackers from breaking into the Health Department’s system.”
You know though, that doesn’t make sense for the quote to be in an article 11-01-08 because by then Factcheck had already posted what they said was the BC#. Unless they were just trying to deal with what could be proven to have been put out by Obama himself, the Fight the Smears image, which never did have the BC# on it.
Okay. Here’s one from June 13, 2008, before Factcheck gave the BC#. It’s from The Advertiser instead of Politifact, so I was mistaken on that.
http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200808190001
The quote from the article:
“Others wonder why a large black rectangle appears next to the words, “CERTIFICATE NO.”
“The thing that’s redacted is just our file number,” she said. “Potentially, if you have that number, you could break into the system.”
Interesting that the Advertiser was still spouting that same line from Okubo in November, even after the number had already been exposed via Factcheck.
And it’s interesting that Okubo ever said it in the first place, given that Factcheck says Hawaii officials said there was no reason not to show the number.