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Tarantino Documents Leaked

By Bob Larrivee posted 01-22-2014 16:59

  

Yes, that’s right, or so it was reported in an article I read today titled: “Quentin Tarantino scraps western plans after script leak”. According to this article, a draft script was provided to several “trustworthy” people for review. Someone, and there is no indication as to who this person is, let it be known that it existed and likely even leaked the storyline. Tarantino became aware of the leak when his staff began receiving calls about the script from agents on behalf of their clients. So, for you Tarantino fans, the result in all of this is there will be no Quentin Tarantino western filmed in the near future.

In my view, this is yet another example of the security challenges faced by businesses every day. The biggest challenge of course, humans. In this case, we have a noted filmmaker who trusted several individuals with his intellectual property, a script. That trust was broken and a project that potentially could have been a huge revenue generator has been canceled.  All because of the human element breaking trust and security.

Given my years in information and process management, and my affinity to technology, I have to wonder if use of a document management system would have helped. (Notice I did not say prevent as I cannot think of a way effectively stop humans from being human, nor would I want to.) I do not know the particulars of how this script was provided to the reviewers, but it does make me wonder. If a system was used to provide a secure place where the reviewer could access the script, read it, provide comments, and all of this were to be recorded in an audit log, would it have been more secure and less likely leaked? I cannot answer that for sure, but I do know it is possible to leverage technology in that way. The variable to this equation is still, the unpredictable human.

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Bob Larrivee, Director of Custom Research – AIIM
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01-29-2014 05:00

With the caveat of course that humans will always be humans; and some of them are ingenious!

01-29-2014 04:48

Would a document management system have prevented a leak? Unlikely. Even if you could demonstrate that someone had downloaded a document, or printed it, you couldn't prove that said person had leaked the document. Perhaps if they printed 100 copies that might heavily imply something. But can we find a technology based solution? Yes, digital watermarking. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, not many (if any) of the top quadrant document and records management systems provide this kind of facility; which in this posters view is a real missed opportunity.

01-23-2014 10:24

I saw that news too and was reminded of a similar issue surrounding the TV show Glee, in which social media was used to leak important plot points. (See my post at http://hollygroup.com/wordpress/take-it-from-glee-new-media-can-be/) As you say, you can't stop people from being people -- but you CAN take steps to lessen the impact!