How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
A tangential issue: It seems almost impossible to me that the systems of tax preparation services, whether cloud-based, local software, or offline, are secure.<p>The standard of security is, make the target more expensive to breach than it&#x27;s worth to the attacker. How much would it be worth to have access to the tax returns of large swaths of the population?<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer, but I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s easily worth billions of dollars. Foreign intelligence services would very much like that information, as well as sophisticated criminals.<p>I am very doubtful that Intuit or H&amp;R Block, for example, invest in security sufficient to protect themselves against that level of attack.