The Hackable IRS?

About a year ago the General Accounting Office came out with some concerns about the security of the information held by the IRS.

Yes, take a moment and let that sink in; the information that the IRS was holding about you – which is basically everything, right? – was found to be at risk. These concerns included things such as access controls to computer network management, user account security, file permissions and logging and monitoring of security related events. 81 such worrisome little details in all.

But that was a year ago and the GAO communicated its concerns to the IRS. Surely in a year these problems should have been cleared up, right?

Wrong. How does half sound to you? In a review summarized here the GAO found that the IRS has resolved 41 of the issues that they identified.

I wonder; how the IRS would take it if we only paid half our taxes? I’m just asking…