Over on PHPComplete.com, there's a new article about the talk that Zak Graent gave at the PHP Quebec conference about data security.

First, he didn't talk about MySQL. Rather, he talked about data security, and the many different methods of securing this data. It didn't just cover the basic encryption of data, but it also covered most other avenues of security as well, including securing backups, old data, as well as logs. [...] His example used a test score. In reality, anything with a finite number of answers could be used. The problem is while we limit access to a database, most often we don't encode this data. If a person gets a score of 57 on test of some sort, and we promised it would be private, we have to take measure to encrypt that data.

I admit, it would have been interesting to hear - I almost wish that the speaches were recorded and you could purchase a CD of all of them, or something - I think this'd be a good way to give people who couldn't be there a chance to hear what the speakers said...