What Do The IRS and Paris Hilton Have In Common?

100 IRS workers were called by undercover auditors. 35 of the unsuspecting IRS workers gave the sneaky auditors their username and passwords. The IRS workers were “socially engineered”. This reminds me of the big Paris Hilton social engineering event that happened not too long ago. The part that really gets me is that in 2001, the IRS did the same thing, and 71 of 100 were suckered into revealing passwords. Had I only known this a few months ago before I did my taxes, I would have socially engineered my tax return to be enough for me to retire on a beach in Hawaii. Come to think of it, Paris Hilton didn’t actually give out her password… her password reminder was guessed. What does this say about the IRS?

posted by: feeling entropy