If You Like Your Identity, You Can Keep Your Identity. Period

Have we really reached the point where signing up for Obamacare is only slightly less risky than exploring email investment opportunities from Nigeria?

How is it possible to be this inept in designing the Washington, D.C., Obamacare signup website?

Some shoppers are being directed from the insurance website to an outside site that appears nearly identical to the real exchange, officials confirmed Friday. The fraud is widespread enough that they’re considering adding disclaimers to its website to warn users against divulging their check card or PIN numbers.

“Yes, we have heard of it. There is definitely a phishing scam from an outside source,” said Richard Sorian, a spokesman for D.C. Health Link.

"Shoppers" (is it really shopping under threat of a tax if you don't buy the product?) are passively "being directed" by an "outside source" to a phishing scam from the official website? Just how did that happen? How are you supposed to know which link on the official website is good and which is a scam site?

Sign up and you might have your identity stolen. Fail to sign up and the IRS will fine tax you.

Is this identity theft problem wider than this website?

Tip to National Review Online.