OK Bertelsmann, but what about blabber mouth employees?

German media behemoth, Bertelsmann -AKA- Bertie is going the extra mile to help prevent leaks and sneaks. The company has started encrypting the computer work, including some e-mails, of its high-level executives. That’s all good and dandy but how do they plan to stop leaks via word of mouth and all other communication avenues? Basically Bertie has put in place its own Bush Administration style domestic spy campaign probably because they may have a gut feeling that there is a rogue exec in their midst, or there are major changes coming and they want to keep it top secret until it happens. Anyway Investor's Business Daily sat down with Bertie's spy chief, another dude with a funny name, Tom Goschutz who explains why. I know we always go back to this, but some how some way, we think incoming CEO Hart Ostrowski, is already calling the shots from behind outgoing CEO Gunter Thielen, another guy with a funny name, and this is Hart's doing. Soon phone taps will be put in place, if it hasn’t been already. No more porn surfing on company time. IBD: What kinds of leaks? Goschutz: It's not so much what we usually hear in the press, what you might usually hear in the U.S., about any breach notifications and privacy laws and so on. That's not the issue. It's more at a strategic level -- that things we've been discussing on our company strategy, in terms of mergers and acquisitions and so on, have been discussed in the media even before we've decided. This is why the business side, and actually the board, has driven this initiative and not the IT (information technology department). Oh dam, there goes our source!! We Kid We Kid!!! Encrypting Exec E-Mail Addresses Security Issue [IBD via Yahoo! News]