Did you all get the news? I got mine via email. Most of you probably deleted it without reading like all the other uber important security disclosures embedded in leagal-eeze basically saying they have not secured your personal information like they PROMISED and it got hacked and now the long-term consequences are unknown. However, Intuit/turbo tax CARES about your privacy and will do everything they can to protect it.
Bullshit. That's why they outsource overseas. Make no mistake, there are plenty of Intuit/Turbo Tax hacking thieves within our own borders. It just complicates things when it's international.
Intuit's Turbo Tax program has the biggest personal data breach of all time but the press is ignoring it. Why? Because it would mean dealing with IRS. The IRS operates on their own set of rules they make up as they go along as to what they want to disclose. The IRS *LOVES* getting their information electronically as that means they don't have to deal with 319 million of us citizens sending in reams of paper on countless forms *they* prescribed via snail mail and have to figure out their own insane tax codes they wrote. Disclosing a massive data breach to the public means losing faith in filing electronically. It's the IRS's worst nightmare. They would have to deal with the mountains of paper they now, at the moment, don't really have to deal with via the 'click' of online filing.
Party is over, IRS and Intuit. Thanks to security breaches and international "customer service" centers our personal information is out there in cyberland just waiting to be hacked. Why else do you think the surge in so-called IRS agents calling and emailing us almost daily threatening us on dummy charges is on the rise? Why else do you think that tax fraud identity theft has increased 1,000 fold?
Here's how you get revenge. Paper file your returns via snail mail. Chop down that tree to print the reams of paper the IRS demands you complete. Get 2 more printer cartridges. It may mean renting a U-Haul truck to submit your forms to the IRS, but at least you know your personal information is on a more traceable path rather than launching it into the vulnerable vastness of cyberspace; and therefore, not at the hackable whim of any Snowden-video-geek-techno-wanabee.
Key words for 2017: Snail mail and cash are making a comeback. You've all ruined the convenience of "online" whatever. We don't trust you with our information.
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