Intuit (INTU), the company that makes TurboTax, maintains a database containing users’ Social Security numbers, names and other personal data — even for customers using the desktop version of the software who save their files on their own hard drives.
The existence of the database was revealed to users when Intuit set up a website for customers to ask for their $25 refunds from the software price increase. The site at turbotax.intuit.com/25back requires users to enter their Social Security numbers to get their $25 refunds. That indicates that personal tax data is, indeed, being stored by Intuit.
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Unsurprisingly, Gates agrees that the internet can make smart people smarter. By analogy, the printing press also made smart people smarter because it gave them cheap, easy access to far more information. Since they were capable of processing the information, they were effectively smarter than they used to be.
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“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. The more you know.