News Story Accused Network Administrator Still In Jail

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Tue, 09/22/2009 - 20:55

Remember Terry Childs ?

He was the network administrator for the city of San Francisco who -- claiming he was protecting the city government's computer system from incompetent coworkers -- changed the system's passwords and then for more than a week refused to give them to anyone, even after being arrested.

Childs eventually did give the passwords to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, and was charged with four felony counts, basically of variations on hacking.

Well, it's...


 

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