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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."
Troll? Seriously? Has to be the worse troll.. mod... ever!
Troll would be for some purposely offensive post designed to provoke a flame war, not a straight-forward opinion like this.
Seriously, I've seen several of these weird "troll" mods lately on slashdot. They usually get undone within a few hours too.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
With all respect...it was intended as a joke. Clearly, people at 35 should not be having blood-pressure issues, as a norm. It references the perception espoused by some commentators that 35 is "too old" for IT, patent nonsense though that is. Really, it was just a follow up to the "think of the children".
The organization's policies are no longer any of your business once you leave their employ.
That's simply not true. Had he given the passwords out to the wrong person, he could have found himself on trial for the exact same bullshit anti-hacker law they charged him with.
The only difference is it would be completely legitimate, and he'd lose in a heartbeat, instead of this drummed up witch hunt to save the DA and City's reputation.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller