Treehouse -> Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE

Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE

Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic

Narada

Posted: Jul 22 2006, 07:12 PM

Administrator

Group: Admin
Posts: 265
Member No.: 1
Joined: 19-November 05

Now I really wish I had been able to go.

QUOTE (Slashdot)

FBI agents today arrested Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United States, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. From the story: 'Rambam 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. Rambam and three other panelists were to discuss how they 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.'

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...32223&from=rss

Hopefully as the HOPE conferences progress, we can learn more about what exactly is going on. If I hear anything else, I'll let you know. As it stands, HOPE is supposed to continue as normal.

--------------------

Adele	Posted: Jul 22 2006, 10:13 PM
Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Member No.: 4 Joined: 11-December 05	Man... I'm not really suprised something like that happened though. -------------------- Si intraverit sapientia cor tuum et scientia animae tuae placuerit...

Narada	Posted: Jul 24 2006, 06:31 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 265 Member No.: 1 Joined: 19-November 05	Why oh why, would you bust in to HOPE and arrest this guy right before he was about to give his presentation, in front of a bunch of hackers? C'mon Uncle Sam, surely you didn't let the repercussions of that slip your mind? --------------------

Narada

Posted: Jul 24 2006, 04:38 PM

Administrator

Group: Admin
Posts: 265
Member No.: 1
Joined: 19-November 05

An updated article from SecurityFocus:

QUOTE (SecurityFocus)

FBI agents arrested private detective Steven Rombom--who also uses the name "Steven Rambam"--this weekend, minutes before the investigator was scheduled to give a panel discussion on information gathering at the Hackers on Planet Earth 2006 conference in New York City.

Rombom, senior director of investigation firm Pallorium, is charged with a single count of influencing a law enforcement officer or member of jury, according to the probable-cause complaint. The charge stems from an incident where Rombom allegedly impersonated a law enforcement officer to question the family of a confidential informant who had aided police in a money laundering case that will be tried in August, the complaint said.

Rombom had been scheduled to lead a panel discussion on database, privacy and computer-aided investigation at the HOPE 2006 conference titled "Privacy is Dead -- Get Over It." Private investigators' access to supposedly private records has moved center stage following revelations that at least a dozen companies sold access to phone and cell records in the past. The issue of online privacy has also been highlighted by major data breaches and the current flap surrounding the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.

The FBI office in New York City confirmed the arrest. Rombom will be arraigned in court today, said a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The FBI did not explain the timing of Rombom's arrest.

Representatives of Pallorium could not immediately be reached for comment.

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/261?ref=rss

--------------------

Adele	Posted: Jul 24 2006, 08:08 PM
Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Member No.: 4 Joined: 11-December 05	I so wanna marry him. Teehee...Rambam... -------------------- Si intraverit sapientia cor tuum et scientia animae tuae placuerit...

0 User(s) are reading this topic (0 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)

0 Members:

« Next Oldest | News | Next Newest »