The date: March 12, 2008. The scene: the second Data Protection Conference at the Irvine (Calif.) Hilton, right across MacArthur Boulevard from the "Hey there, Pilgrim" airport-John Wayne International. Some 660 registered attendees and speakers were moving to and fro, going in and out of seminars, gathering in little groups to talk show, and grabbing coffee and snacks in between sessions. During a break, one of the more interesting groups of IT security folks I found myself in wasn't talking about the usual-suspect topics. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer just hours before had announced his resignation after days of speculation about his political future, and the talk was all about him and his high-end call-girl-centric personal foibles.
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