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SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network
snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his administrative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs is still being held on $5 million bail for his lockout of the city's FiberWAN, a case that has been called into question since an insider came forward with details about both the network and Childs himself. The case hinges on No Service Password Recovery commands Childs allegedly configured onto several Cisco devices, as well as dial-up and DSL modems the SFPD has discovered that would allow unauthorized connections to the FiberWAN. Childs intends to 'expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger,' according to his motion. The Department of Telecom and IS has cut 200 of its 350 IT positions since 2000 — pressure that may have contributed to Childs' actions, according to interviews with current and former DTIS staffers. Newsom secured the passwords without first telling the DTIS that he was meeting with Childs."
The case hinges on No Service Password Recovery commands Childs allegedly configured onto several Cisco devices, as well as dial-up and DSL modems the SFPD has discovered that would allow unauthorized connections to the FiberWAN.
Mr. Paranoid Admin with a God complex had big freakin' huge vulnerabilities on his precious network?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
As if we don't already know the city of SF is horribly mismanaged and grossly out of touch with the rest of the planet.
I swear I didn't know it was loaded...
or when the courts thought that abortion should be legal?
oh, that's right, only the liberals get to play the moral superiority card, the other side is always wrong no matter how disgusting the practice.
abortion = slavery
actually, I find molestation very funny.
He prevented authorized access by withholding the passwords.
By refusing to give the passwords, he did wrong. Your own words prove the point.
You may as well say "other than shooting someone, he did NO wrong". You can't ignore the fact that he did, in fact, do something wrong because it is convenient to your argument.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Being San Francisco he obviously should have been a gang banging pistol packing illegal immigrant - he would have been out in a day on personal recognizance and shielded from any federal authorities.
Flamebait? The mods are politically-correct dumbfucks.
Trolling is a art,