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Why? because you're constantly adding new code every night to protect the functionality of the system. you have exposed millions of americans because you all, according to your memo, believed it was an acceptable risk. don't you think you had the obligation to tell the american people that we're going to put you in this system but beware, your information is likely to be vulnerable? would you commit today, secretary, to shut down the system and do an end-to-end security test -- >> no, sir. if you read the memo. >> oh, i have read it. >> it depose on to say that weekly testing of our devices, d...

Backup systems. they had no encryption on certain boundary crossings. you accepted a risk on behalf of every user of this computer that put their personal financial information at risk because you did not even have the most basic end-to-end test on security of this system. amazon would never do this. pro flowers would never do this. kayak would never do this. this is completely an unacceptable level of security and here's the scary part. we found out after the contractors last week that an end-to-end test hadn't been conducted on secure, not functionality, because if it's not functioning, you ...

I have to fix this problem. >> you have confidence dm november 30th? >> i do. >> it was testing -- temporary authority -- >> yes or no. yes or no has an end to end security test on healthcare.gov went live, yes or no? >> i will find out exactly what testing they are doing. i know they are doing simultaneous testing as new code is loaded. >> kathleen sebelius this morning on the website's. technicali technical issues, the system was down again today. they were suggested to apply by phone instead. a new poll on the rollout shows 37% of americans think these glitches are short term technical issu...

That as code is loaded, you need to retest over and over and over again. so whether it's pretested, i can't tell you. >> you need to test the code. >> it's simultaneous -- >> have any end-to-end security tests been conducted since healthcare.gov went live october 1st, yes or no. >> my understanding is there is continuous testing as -- temporary authority to op ralt calls for. >> yes or no, has an end-to-end security test on healthcare.gov went live, yes or no? >> i will finding out exactly what testing they're doing. i know they're doing simultaneous testing as new code is loaded. >> are there...

To end test on security of this system. amazon would not do that. pro- flowers would not do that. this is unacceptable and here is the scary part. we found out after the contractors last week that an end to end test was not done on security, not functionality. if it is not functioning, it is not secure. ongoing hot patches without end to end test. private contractors told us a have thorough two months for an end to end security test that did not happen today. why? because you are adding new code to protect the functionality of the system. you have exposed millions of americans, because you all...