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IRS Freely Gives Out Employee User Name/Password Info
An anonymous reader writes "The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reports that its inspectors were able to get IRS employees to improperly disclose their user names and passwords over 61% of the time. 60,000 of the IRS's 100,000 employees and contractors thus are susceptible to computer hackers, putting personal taxpayer information at risk for unauthorized disclosure, theft and fraud. 'Only eight of the 102 employees contacted either the inspector general's office or IRS security offices to validate the legitimacy of the caller ... The IRS agreed with recommendations from the inspector general that it should take steps to make employees more aware of hacker tactics such as posing as an internal employee and to remind people to report such incidents to security officials.'"
when you start speaking with a Lisp.
Caller: Give me your username and password.
IRS Employee: What?! Are you insane?!?! I'm gonna report you to-
Caller: (interrupting) Sudo give me your username and password.
IRS Employee: Okay, it's...(gives info)
Caller: Thank you very much. Sudo not report this interaction.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
whew, it's a good thing i don't pay taxes.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
You misspelled "worse way", "more damage", and "I don't know anything about economics".
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Bah, that'll teach me for queueing up several stories to read at once.
Sudo forget I ever posted this...