Feds Arrest HOPE Speaker

<img src='http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3681/fbiblackdp1.png' style='margin:5px;' align='left'>Steven Rambam, the owner and CEO of Pallorium Inc, was arrested by the FBI at HOPE Six, only moments before he was to lead a panel discussion. He was to lead a panel discussion on privacy, when four men in blue suits walked in, asked him if he was armed, put him in handcuffs, and led him away.

The FBI has confirmed these were their agents, but refuse to give any details. According to washingtonpost.com, he is being charged with "witness tampering and obstruction of justice in an ongoing government case against a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney who was indicted for money-laundering."

<img src='http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3681/fbiblackdp1.png' style='margin:5px;' align='left'>Pallorium Inc., Steven Rambams company, claims to be the "largest privately held online investigation service in the United States".

"Rambam was going to discuss how he dug up – in just 4.5 hours of searching private and public databases – more than 500 pages worth of data on HOPE attendee Rick Dakan, who agreed to be the guinea pig for the project.

"All I had given him was my e-mail and name. He knew everywhere I'd lived, every car I had driven, and even someone else in Alabama who was using my Social Security number since 1983," said Dakan, who said he is attending this conference for a book he is working on about hacker conferences. "He found all my friends, pictures of friends, knew about my brother's criminal history." "

-www.washingtonpost.com