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