ANNOUNCEMENT: RPK SECURITY ANNOUNCES RPK ENCRYPTONITE GLOBAL REPRESENTATIVE PROGRAM FOR ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY

[Paul Leyland]

> >>> for electronic commerce, !Effective, an innovative 
> information consulting
> >>
> >>Hehe, whoever thought of that name clearly wasn't a C or Perl
> >>programmer! :-)
...
> I know this is a boring request, but will someone spill the beans and
> explain the joke for C and Perl ignorami like me?


The '!' character is used for the logical negation operator, so the name
reads as
"NOT Effective".

Someone, somewhere, screwed up.


Paul