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by choxi 1926 days ago
Isn’t this true for any traditional accountant you might use as well? Any form of outsourcing financials seems like it would have the same risk.
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Accounting is a highly regulated field. My local accountant is properly certified, and takes information security very seriously (in part because of well established precedent around liability and professional misconduct).
> takes information security very seriously

I don't mean this as a giant joke, but where do you find these accountants?

I'm not saying that they don't try to, but things that would be major security no-no's to people on HN are often a regular part of business for others (emailing photocopies of 'secure' documents, copy/pasting passwords, etc).

It varies. My tax preparer will not even open PDFs that I want to send him due to the risks he perceives there.