From: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
   On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:36 AM, jim bell <[1]jamesdbell9@yahoo.com>
   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

References

   1. mailto:jamesdbell9@yahoo.com