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Terry Childs's Slow Road To Justice
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia provides an update on the City of San Francisco's trial against IT admin Terry Childs, which — at eight weeks and counting — hasn't even seen the defense begin to present its case. The main spotlight thus far has been on the testimony of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. 'Many articles about this case have pounced on the fact that after Childs gave the passwords to the mayor, they couldn't immediately be used. Most of these pieces chalk this up to some kind of secondary infraction on Childs's part,' Venezia writes. 'Just because you give someone a password doesn't mean that person knows how to use it. Childs's security measures would have included access lists that blocked attempted logins from non-specified IP addresses or subnets. In short, it was nothing out of the ordinary if you know anything about network security.' But while the lack of technical expertise in the case is troubling, encouraging is the fact that the San Francisco Chronicle's 'breathless piece reporting on the mayor's testimony' drew comments 10-to-1 in Childs's favor, which may indicate that 'public opinion of this case has tilted in favor of the defense,' Venezia writes. Of course, 'if [the trial] drags into summer, Childs will have the dubious honor of being held in jail for two full years.' This for a man who 'ultimately protected the [City's] network until the bitter end.'"
Men like these are all that stand between us and the terrorists who would destroy our internet-based communications.
I'd log in to post a comment, but Terry Childs won't tell me my password...
Will ciso before to let take the reup test with out having to do full lab test and is he able to get IT books / tests in jail?
How many children would you have to rape to get bail set that high? How many people would you have to kill? How many computer offenses would you have to commit?
that would be about 2 illegal song uploads or 23 killings.
This for a man who 'ultimately protected the [City's] network until the bitter end.'
Obligatory: xkcd: Devotion to Duty
Summary needs more links that won't be read.
It looked like a memo from management to me. Very senior management.
Maybe they can get the people from Youtube that are in charge of overlapping volume controls and 360p-480p selectors. That might be a good middle ground between technically-literate jurors and barking morons.
And since it was not his job, he should be expected to grant access to anyone he could be reasonably certain was a city official.
Thechically, what you're doing there is making stuff up. Not only that, but idiotic stuff.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Hey, don't go getting rational on us!
Cheap storage VM.