The it industry has spawned more than its share of celebrity executives. Now IT has borrowed a celebrity from the world of entertainment, heiress and socialite Paris Hilton, for marquee value in the battle to secure online systems. Most of the world knows that Hilton's smart-phone address book contents were posted on the Internet. As yet, no one has determined whether the leak came from cracking a smart phone's device-resident storage, perhaps by exploiting its Bluetooth capabilities, or from accessing Hilton's records in the T-Mobile database. To Hilton and her inconvenienced coterie of contacts, it hardly matters.
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