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HOPE Speaker Arrested by the Feds

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

Security Fix just learned that Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United States, was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents just moments before he was to lead a panel discussion on privacy here at the HOPE hacker conference in New York City.

Details are sketchy at the moment, but Rambam's fellow panelists said four men clad in dark blue FBI jackets quietly entered the auditorium, asked Rambam if he had any weapons on him, and then escorted him out the door along with his laptop and other equipment that contained the PowerPoint slides that were to make up the bulk of his scheduled two-hour presentation.

posted by Fergie @ 7/22/2006 04:30:00 PM