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Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands
snydeq writes "Closing arguments concluded Monday in the city of San Francisco's case against Terry Childs, the network administrator charged with violating California hacking laws by refusing to hand over network passwords for the city's FiberWAN during a 12-day period in 2008. Childs was charged in July 2008 and has been held on $5 million bail ever since. The highly technical trial, which featured testimony from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Cisco Chief Security Officer John Stewart, has dragged on for nearly six months. By Monday, five of the 18 jurors and alternates selected for the trial had dropped out, and the remaining jurors seemed relieved to see the arguments wrap up as they left the courtroom Monday afternoon. They will return Tuesday to start their deliberations. Childs faces five years in prison if he is convicted for disrupting service to the city's computer system by withholding administrative passwords — a verdict that, if rendered, puts all IT admins in danger."
The COO of his organization asked for the passwords.
If the COO of your organization can't get the passwords who can?
You're talking about a boss of bosses here, there is one man higher on the good chain than the man that asked for the passwords in his organization, to go any higher than that you have to outside the organization to its parent ... i.e. the mayor.
You guys really need to get over this 'he was right' bullshit.
You REALLY think they took him to jail because he said 'I'm not giving them to anyone but my boss'? ... rather than just getting his boss?
Seriously? Are you that retarded? I have several ocean front properties in Arizona I'd love to sell you. 150 acres, $1 each, beautiful ocean view. You can take them all for ... hell, for you ... $100. I'm doing a sale for gullible morons this week.
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you know it's technically illegal to kill someone, but the law allows for justifiable homicide.
this guy took over the system to protect it from the rest of the idiot users who, like the rest of the City employees, are incompetent.
I WISH I was on the jury. I'd vote innocent of all charges.. until he was acquitted or the judge declared a hung jury. I can understand his position. My mother does not get admin privs on her machine..
Probably punishment for the 35+ comment. Oh.. and the fact there are hundreds of idiots hanging around here with mod points who don't even attempt to understand the context of the thread let alone actually read parent posts.
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