FBI Crash the HOPE Party...

Right now, you should be keeping it tuned to the Brian Krebs Awesome-fest that is the Security Fix blog. Brian is currently attending the Sixth Hope Convention (Hackers On Planet Earth), and it's all kicking off. With amazing timing, the Feds came to crash the party and shortly before a much-anticipated talk by one Steven Rambam, took him to one side and made him vanish, Ninja-style. His talk sounded good, too - from the Security Fix entry:

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.

...nice. Adding to the general sense of high drama is the fact that, currently, the 2600 Magazine site (the guys responsible for the conference) and the Hope site itself are both down. Oooh, conspiracy!

Some excellent comments via Slashdot here.