Ssssh! Don't Tell the Terrorists
The U.S. Treasury Dept. has flunked agan a General Accounting Accounting Office security audit of its computer systems.

Of course, most tax professionals probably already knew the systems were a rickety pastiche. But the GAO reports that little more than bailing wire wire is holding all 708 seperate systems in place. The GAO identified 765 general control weaknesses. In addition, the GAO conducted five application control reviews and found 112 weaknesses. More