Our Tax Dollars at Work

[kcjenkins]

After miserably failing an audit of employee computer security measures in 2005, the Internal Revenue Service has again tested to see if it was easy to anonymously call tax agency employees to talk them out of their computer passwords. In 2005, 35 percent gave up their passwords; in the more recent test, 61 percent did so, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration -- nearly back to the 71 percent level of the 2001 audit. "This is especially disturbing because the IRS has taken many steps to raise employee awareness of the importance of protecting their computers and passwords," said Inspector General J. Russell George. The audit report says that the lax password security allows the caller to access taxpayer records. (AP)

[TAXBILLY]

Disturbing to say the least.

taxbilly