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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.'"
"Well, he did his undergrad at Yale and has a Harvard MBA" - by Slashdot Parent (995749) on Sunday August 05, @04:08PM (#20124315)
Any "fratboy" can tell you about cheating, & HOW it is done (especially for the wealthy &/or politically connected)...
"He flew fighter jets (F-102s) in the national guard. Can you fly a fighter jet? I can't." - by Slashdot Parent (995749) on Sunday August 05, @04:08PM (#20124315)
Monkeys can be trained to pilot space vehicles too... Give ANYONE the right training & time to practice? ANYTHING can be achieved, by anybody.
(This is the great gift of being a human being, imo @ least!)
"You would have an easy time convincing me that several negative adjectives describe President Bush. However, you will have difficulty convincing me that the man is stupid." - by Slashdot Parent (995749) on Sunday August 05, @04:08PM (#20124315)
Look man, NOBODY actually LIKES putting down their nation's political figures... but, his "election" is absolutely questionable, whether it was legitimate or not (first of all).
Secondly, I don't think Mr. Bush is stupid, but I do think that he "plays that part" @ times @ least... I do, however, question his sanity in 1 respect: The entire "stay the course" thing?
Well, if Mr. Bush &/or Mr. Cheney want to keep this 'war' up (based on false pretenses via no "WMD's" found, trying to blame the CIA, when all they DO is provide data (but, they do NOT make decisions to act on it, that is the responsibility of our leaders & to CHECK THAT DATA MANY TIMES, before acting on it for its validity etc.), & the entire "no bid on the job, Haliburton b.s."?)...
Well... is this "war for freedom" (while our personal freedoms & privacies are eroded &/or abused) smart?
We should have just beaten them up, took their oil, & LEFT (leaving them to recover their nation, & allow THE IRAQI people to restructure their own lives, with their OWN version of "Freedom"... not ours!)
APK
P.S.=> I say, that for all the monies the oil companies are making (of which Mr. Bush's family is HEAVILY involved, and with the Bin Laden Clan no less since 1946 directly), & not giving us a break on oil/gas prices (which drives up the price of everything else, like power) which it SHOULD HAVE (hey, if you're going to beat someone up, with someone else's money (the US Taxpayer, John Q. Public)? Give him some "ROI" @ least, like lower gas prices (since IRAQ has oceans of oil there, TAKE IT!!!)... apk