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- enevitable, on 05/25/2009, -0/+9I guess I always assumed they shredded this stuff into oblivion, but if they are able to recreate 1040's out of trash dumpsters behind IRS buildings that is some sobering news
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+8Stupid stuff like that in this day and age shouldn't be happening. Heads should roll from the top down.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6The CIA headquarters in Langley burns their documents and uses the heat as energy. They've been doing it for over a decade.
- fearthefin, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6One man's trash is another's gold.
- Tarkaan, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3What's scary is that there are "Shred-It" (different company now, but used to be them) bins all over every government office that deals in things of that nature. Employees just choose not to use them.
- Bradillac, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3I owed back taxes a year ago... I once asked an IRS operator if when they sent monthly tax payment invoices if they could do it through email or if it had to be through the mail, to not send them with my social printed on them. She checked with a supervisor and sometime later told me that they were unable to do either...
I hate that as an American I have no choice but to use this worthless 'service'... - Jakoul, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3This encourages me to pay taxes.
- snogye, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3dugg for sarcasm.
- JDLamb88, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3This is why I evade taxes!
- Wornstrom, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2NASA - Langley has an incinerator/steam plant... everything gets burned and used to generate steam for the wind tunnels. I mean everything... I didn't know hard drives would burn, for instance.
- Tarkaan, on 05/25/2009, -0/+21. Yup. Where I came from, you can be fired for that. Drawings go into a quarter inch cross-cut on the spot, no exceptions.
2. That's why you get a "Secure" shredding company. Those bins are locked. Put a customer set of B-sized prints in by accident? Tough *****, fella, unless you can coax the Admin Assistant to get the Shred-It guy to let you go in after it, and in my 8 years in industry, I've never even heard that happening before. - jfoobar, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2There are two points of vulnerability here.
1. The IRS employee or contractor who fails to dispose of sensitive documents in a to-be-shredded bin.
2. The custodial staff who fails to empty to-be-shredded bins into an actual shredder or pass them along to a shredding service (which is itself a third point of vulnerability).
I have personally witnessed #2 on several occasions in the private sector. - snogye, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2Sounds like the story of Hansel and Grettle, except the CIA is the Witch.
- shahbasharat, on 09/19/2009, -0/+1PROTECT YOURSELF:
http://digg.com/business_finance/All_About_Identit ... - Dumbledorito, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1It's not just them. I'm amazed at how many agencies, mostly credit card companies and utilities, publish enough info for an identity thief to convince your family they're you on every page of every bill or ad they send your way. It's getting to the point where I need to burn or shred every scrap of paper that comes in via my mailbox.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1and is there any system in place to punish these government stooges? no, but you could expect the government to be all over this if it was a private business that did this.
- xero69, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Boy I'm glad I filed my taxes electronically this year!
- batmanjb, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1It's terrible very terrible if this continue to go on.
- untouchableLENS, on 05/25/2009, -4/+0As someone who has studied computer science I feel that I must warn you that email is 100% insecure, and is in fact worse than physical mail. Sending sensitive information over email is a horribly dangerous idea and it's a good thing she didn't do it.
Emails can be sniffed, meaning that people can get a copy and read them without you ever realizing that the message was read along the way, whereas physical mail would at least have signs of tampering or never being delivered, enabling you to take action. It doesn't help that emails are send in plaintext, so once sniffed, the ***** wouldn't even have to do anything extra to read your social security numbers, passwords, and other important data you might've sent. And if you're on wifi? Like candy from a baby.
As for your account in general, consider - people in the White House and Pentagon can have their emails leaked, how safe do you think your IRS-sent email is?
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