Drake and their WISP

[Corduroy Frog]

And no, I didn't mean to say "WASP"...

But all of you know what I'm talking about anyway.  The increasing talents of the identity theft pirates mean that we must jump through more hoops every year to protect ourselves (and clients) from identity theft.  This year we were supposed to have a "WiSP" Written Information Security Plan.  I drafted a WISP from my seminar materials.

I counted on Drake to provide the machinery necessary to bring about my WISP.  When I contacted them, they showed me one of those weird rectangles with all those tiny dots.  My daughter calls it a "QR" or something like that.

I objected to Drake, as I don't want to deal with something that I don't what is doing, and apparently this thing is supposed to suck personal data from my cell phone, which has absolutely no tax information stored in it anywhere.  I asked Drake for an alternate method and they said absolutely not.

And of course, they are billing for renewal with an 8% increase.  And no effective response for my WISP.  I feel out of touch with this whole scenario, and I'm sure there are those among you who will chime in and agree.

Why can't we concentrate on becoming better tax preparers and not have to become I.T. people?  For what it's worth, I also subscribe to the Elon Musk belief that we are in danger of A.I. running our entire economy and taking personal decisions from us.

This post may invoke all manner of comments.  I didn't engineer it that way, at least not on purpose.