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Encryption..."Maybe I will, GOSH!!"

I got a kick out of a story posted yesterday in the Phasetwo blog, "IBM using Napoleon Dynamite quote to encrypt data." I love this movie...and to think it has been incorporated into encryption..."sweet"!  :) 

""Knock it off, Napoleon! Just make yourself a dang quesa-dilluh!". This phrase, from the movie Napoleon Dynamite, is the cipher key IBM are using to publish encrypted XML at this year's Wimbledon grand slam. But is this a rather glaring lapse in security, or simply an anticipatory nod to curious hackers, many of whom surely rank amongst the fans of this quirky 2004 movie?"

Kinda looks like the IBM folks were experimenting with encryption in this case...it doesn't sound like any confidential information was being protected with it.  It wasn't even any critical IP they owned, was it?  I really can't tell from my limited, okay, basically nonexistant, knowledge of this "font of live data." 

It's nice to know some companies enjoy using encryption, isn't it?  Heck yes!

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.