20 Jul
2001
20 Jul
'01
12:45 a.m.
At 09:19 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
As a side note, the chief of security for the Alexis Park Hotel -- where the Defcon convention took place and where Sklyarov was arrested -- professed to know nothing. When asked about the arrest, he said: "I have no idea." When pressed about contact with the FBI, he admitted: "The FBI advises us if they are going to be on our property, but they don't tell us why. The FBI did advise us they would be on our property Monday morning."
FWIW, Tomlinson in _The Big Breach_ asserts that many senior hotel security folks sleep with the spooks.