Only forward this to friends that may be sick in the future.

One of the best parts of Obamacare is that health insurance companies can no longer reject you because of "pre-existing conditions". Did you have an auto accident 10 years ago? No healthcare for you. Did you buy allergy medicine once? No coverage for you. Did you (or your wife/girlfriend/mother) have a baby or see a doctor about her cycle? Some companies use that as an excuse to deny coverage.

What is it like to be denied coverage? Sometimes it means that you can't even become their customer. Other times it means you've just got some live-saving surgery and when the bill comes your insurance provider replies, "hey, I know you've been paying your monthly bill on time but we just realized you have a pre-existing condition so.... f--- you we've decided not to pay."

This is no longer legal due to Obamacare.

Romeny and Santorum both promise to repeal 100% of Obamacare. Really? They're going to remove this part too? Up to half of Americans under 65 and as many as 17 million children suffer from a pre-existing condition. That means your parents plus your children, nieces or nephews will be hurt by a repeal.

If you care about this issue please forward this link to your friends that are undecided about voting for Romney and/or Santorum.

http://www.attackwatch.com/the-cost-of-repealing-the-affordable-care-act-people-with-pre-existing-cond

PICC keynote announced: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"

[Note: "Early-bird" price ends in 3 days! Don't lose the discount! PICC is May 11-12, 2012 in NJ]

The PICC committee is excited to announce our closing keynote speaker:

Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"

Dr. Mercuri is the lead forensic expert at Notable Software, Inc.
Her caseload has included matters from contraband, murder, viruses
and malware, and election recounts (most notably Bush vs. Gore).
She has testified on the federal, state, and local level as well
as to the U.K. Cabinet.

Talk abstract:
The economic theories proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book
"The Black Swan" have strong parallels in information security.
Indeed, the concepts of robustness and risk assessment mentioned
in Taleb's writing are also well known to those who design software
and systems intended to withstand attack. Such assaults on computers,
networks and data are now so commonplace that if these threats all
suddenly vanished, this would likely constitute a Black Swan Event.
But whether a successful and novel attack should also be considered
a Black Swan may be debatable. This talk will compare the shortcomings
of bell curve (Mediocristan) and power law (Extremistan) event
models. The idea that outlier occurrences should be considered more
"normal" will shed insight on new methods for recovery mitigation.
Attendees need no formal knowledge of statistics or economics in
order to appreciate the concepts discussed in this talk.


Register now and avoid the rush!

http://picconf.org

Space is limited! Register now!

Note: The opening keynote speaker will be announced in a few days.