As they noted,
I can attest to this. I had 17 separate passwords for 17 different systems at one point - and I retired in 2005 - and all of those passwords had to be changed every 3 months and they had to be 12 letters long(at least) with various characters. The workforce was aging rapidly and no one could remember that shit so everyone wrote all their passwords down..... which was a definite no-no according to the computer security assholes...but the alternative would have been endlessly applying for replacements.
No one would believe how fucked up it all was. Which is why I smiled today when I heard that half of the IRS' computers were still running X-P. As far as I know the only smart thing that they did was avoiding VISTA. Even the IRS wouldn't fall for that!
You can't make this shit up.
Quote:The IRS has since deployed more than 500 separate computer systems to handle facets of the process by which some 200 million tax returns are vetted every year. Many of them were designed throughout the years simply to provide workarounds or extract particular data from Master File and IDRS, which it considers the heart and soul of its operations.
I can attest to this. I had 17 separate passwords for 17 different systems at one point - and I retired in 2005 - and all of those passwords had to be changed every 3 months and they had to be 12 letters long(at least) with various characters. The workforce was aging rapidly and no one could remember that shit so everyone wrote all their passwords down..... which was a definite no-no according to the computer security assholes...but the alternative would have been endlessly applying for replacements.
No one would believe how fucked up it all was. Which is why I smiled today when I heard that half of the IRS' computers were still running X-P. As far as I know the only smart thing that they did was avoiding VISTA. Even the IRS wouldn't fall for that!
You can't make this shit up.
