If they at some later stage got found out to have massaged the data they would just blame it on some office intern who would then be fired and claim it was a statistical fault, politicians only get the where they are by lying, blaming others for their failures, being able to gaslight the public and being able to perform a complete u-turn on a subject and flat out deny it to your face they had done so.

Many people forget that politicians have no spine, morals or inclination to tell the truth, especially when the opposite with assist their position.

I have no experience of the system, but is it possible to sign a family up with one session, because I can see them easily adjusting it so instead of one signup they’ve got 5 etc

From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-bounces@cpunks.org] On Behalf Of jim bell
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 6:29 PM
To: Steve Furlong
Cc: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
Subject: Re: healthcare.gov vulnerability?

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