Fugitive Exec Nabbed After Skype Call

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Here's an interesting story... via ARS Technica.

[snip]

Kobi Alexander, the founder of Comverse, was nabbed in Negombo, Sri
Lanka yesterday by a private investigator. He is wanted by the US
government in connection with financial fraud charges. He is accused of
profiting from some very shady stock-option deals, to the detriment of
Comverse shareholders. Once the deals became public and he was
indicted, he resigned as CEO and fled the US.

Alexander was traced to the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo after he
placed a one-minute call using Skype. That was enough to alert
authorities to his presence and hunt him down.

The fugitive former CEO may have been convinced that using Skype made
him safe from tracking, but he—and everyone else that believes VoIP is
inherently more secure than a landline—was wrong. Tracking anonymous
peer-to-peer VoIP traffic over the Internet is possible. In fact, it
can be done even if the parties have taken some steps to disguise the
traffic.

[snip]

More here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060824-7582.html

- ferg


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