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Ex-SF Admin Terry Childs Gets 4-Year Sentence

Posted by timothy on from the if-only-he-knew-the-password-to-jail dept.

Robert McMillan writes "You remember Terry Childs, right? He was finally sentenced Friday. Childs got four years in prison for refusing to hand over passwords to his bosses. This is a denial of service under California law."

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  1. Quoting Carlos Mencia by broknstrngz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "How the fuck is this news?". Really. Slashdot readers are vastly outnumbered by the dumbasses out there, who luckily we don't keep track of. Why should this one be any different? Seems he's a slow news day's go-to story.

  2. Re:That is because you are wrong by arose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So... you listed 3 types of physical things. Passwords are not. If you want your access tokens returned, you make them smart cards or OTP generators. In that case you actually get them back and the person loses access.

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  3. Wrong analogy by mangu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I can't work at a diamond store, lock-up the diamonds in a safe, and then throw away the key so that the store own can't get to his own property

    The owner of the city of San Francisco network isn't the mayor or some manager in the city administration, those are only the administrators. The true owner of that network is the people of San Francisco.

    Your analogy would be like this: is it right for an employee to refuse to tell the combination to the safe in the diamond store to some unknown persons on a phone conference?

    Terry Childs wasn't denying access to the owner or to the legitimate users of the network, he was denying access to a bunch of incompetent managers.

  4. Re:So... by Vellmont · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Sorry, that is not the definition of theft. Here is California's definition of theft.

    That's nice. Except he wasn't charged with theft, he was charged and convicted of Denial of Service. I guess that throws your legal definition out the window, doesn't it?

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