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This distinction is not useful to the people whose information was accessed. Perhaps healthcare.gov could have been designed in such a way that sensitive user
by khazhou 8y ago
This distinction is not useful to the people whose information was accessed. Perhaps healthcare.gov could have been designed in such a way that sensitive user information was not available to client systems, or somehow required that clients have higher levels of security to prevent this from happening.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoThis is big, east coast, many-contractor design. By the time things made it to the point that somebody was thinking about security, a rule like "providers will be given access to the following fields for a client upon request" was likely already written into a half dozen contracts between seventeen sub-contractors.
- isoskeles 8y agoYes, take note east coasters. This doesn't happen on the west coast.
- dpkonofa 8y agoIt is explicitly limited by geography. The magnetic pull of the earth on the west coast, because of the San Andreas fault, prevents this from happening there.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoIs that not a thing? I had thought "west coast" described startupy, in-house, vaguely agile type of software development, and "east coast" described government contracting, sub-sub-sub contracting, waterfall-style development. Maybe I just picked it up from the folks around me and thought it was more universal.