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More than 800 million tax returns have been filed electronically since 1986 with no security incidents to date. The IRS system employs multiple firewalls, state-of-the-art virus and worm detection, and their system is constantly monitored for weaknesses by penetration testing. Your e-Filed return is forwarded over secured telephone lines in a digital format which could not be easily read even if intercepted. And, intercepting telephone transmissions is quite difficult and requires access to phone company major transmission lines. Compared to a paper return, which could easily be identified, misappropriated and read en-route to the IRS, e-Filing is much more secure.
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