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Terry Childs Denied Motion For Retrial
snydeq writes "The former San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords for one of the city's networks has been denied a new trial and is expected to be sentenced Aug. 6. Terry Childs had been due for sentencing Friday but the court instead heard two defense motions, one requesting a new trial and the other for arrested judgment — essentially to have his original conviction overturned. The motions were both denied but the court then ran out of time before the sentencing phase could be conducted."
He was arrested because:
1) He refused to either provide passwords or create new accounts for the people taking over after he had been told he was being reassigned.
The people requesting the passwords be turned over were not authorized to have them, as per the rules.
2) He hadn't submitted his passwords to a central repository, as required by the policies.
Cite?
3) Had set up the equipment in such a way that recovery wouldn't be easy, like configuration files only being kept in RAM.
It's called Security. Hackers can't get the password from the config file if there's no config file left around. From http://www.cio.com.au/article/255165/sorting_facts_terry_childs_case/?pp=3&fp=&pf=1&fpid= :
"Common practices portrayed as nefarious.
The documents filed by the city in opposition to Childs' bail reduction contained many vague references and claims of nefarious actions. But to those with experience in network administration, these activities seem like common practice.
For example, the documents portrayed the fact that Childs had configured some number of routers to disable password recovery as a subversive action, when it's common to use that function to secure routers and switches that cannot be physically secured."
4) Tried to leave the state.
OH MY GOD! THE BASTARD! TRYING TO TRAVEL FREELY IN AMERICA! HANG THE S.O.B.!!!