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60% of IRS employees give out password information when properly wooed

Today we learn of this recent study in which the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration proved that IRS employees are easily persuaded to give up their passwords to fake help-desk personnel using social engineering techniques. Today's Mumbo Gumbo comic repeats this experiment.

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