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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."
Organize against what? Doing your job correctly? Handing passwords over when you're canned?
The hacking charge is ridiculous but in no universe was this guy in the right.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Even though I'm 58 I wouldn't have modded it "troll" (it's "informative" now, as it should be), but I would guess your "Plus, some readers are getting on in years (35+). They can't handle the spiking blood pressure" is the reason. Not everybody at slashdot still has milk dripping from their chins. Insult people and you risk "troll" and "flamebait" mods, no matter how insightful or informative it is.
Free Martian Whores!
You are not a real, proper IT geek until you've either been fired or quit over this sort of nonsense.
Securing systems from morons is just part of the job.
Even if said morons are the people that hired you? Imagine if you hired a locksmith to install locks on your house. When they finished the job, they refused to hand you the keys because they don't trust you to keep your house properly secure. Would that be okay?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Wow, you are amazing. What the poster wrote was, "My 18 year old daughter is getting charged with a FELONY for kicking a door. She was trying to get the jammed door open to get back to her work area,"
That appeared in an earlier article. What I quoted above is what I replied to. "a felony for kicking a door?" No, sir, not "a felony for kicking a door", "a felony for trying to kick open the door to a federal office building." If you can't see the significant difference between those two statements, I'm sorry, I can't help.
As in she kicked a jammed door that she had every right to pass through.
That may be. But kicking in a door you don't OWN, or trying to, is not the correct response to a door that won't let you in. In any case, it wasn't just "kicking a door".
Let me ask you this: you go to the ATM and try to take out all your money. There's a $300/day limit, so you can't. You go get a lockpick, pick the lock on the ATM, remove an amount of cash equal to what you have in your account, and close it back up. The cops arrest you. It's your money! You're just "thinking and acting on your own." You are "arrested for making an ATM withdrawal" when you report the incident to /.
Is it not relevant how you got the money? I think it is. YMMV. But to claim that you were "arrested for making an ATM withdrawal" is an incorrect description of the event.
Nobody is permitted to think or act for themselves. Exactly the kind of people we want working for the government.
You've got to be kidding. You want people working for the government who choose not to call the on-site maintenance people whose job it is to deal with stuck doors, and instead choose to try to force the door open themselves?
I want you to note that I didn't say she should go to jail, only that the claim that it was "a felony for kicking a door" was an incomplete description, and no, I didn't leave out the stuff about "no damage" and whatever, the poster I replied to did. It's lucky that there was no damage. As for what the law is, I don't doubt that attempting to kick in the door to a federal office building is a felony crime, no matter how little damage there is.
Now, the horse is dead. Your turn to beat it.