Harry Potter and the Spoiler of Secrets

Despite measures taken to keep all details of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' under wraps, digital photographs of the book's pages were leaked over the Internet late Monday, and on Tuesday customers of an online book seller began receiving copies, according to a statement by Scholastic, U.S. publisher of the wildly successful fantasy series. ChannelWeb spoke with IT security professionals and sources close to the publishing process in an attempt to recreate what the Harry Potter team might have done to protect the manuscript for as long as they did and what they might have done differently to have succeeded in preventing any leaks at all.