Report: IT Admin Locks up San Francisco's Network (PC World)

PC World ^ | Jul 15, 2008 | Robert McMillan

[Tolkien]

- A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.

The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported.

The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access.

[relictele]

FIGHT THE POWER!

Besides, with the computers down Newsom will have more time to bed his colleagues’ wives.

[romanesq]

Too funny. He should publicly say he will release the password when his demands are announced and then met on national TV.

It would be a riot. And couldn’t happen to a better town.

[dbacks]

[Besides, with the computers down Newsom will have more time to bed his colleagues’ wives.]

Does he care the sex, or for that matter, the species of those he boinks?

[wally_bert]

If it is Windoze based, offer a reward to a hacker and go Linux afterwards.

[VaRepublican]

Well......I thought windows was easily hacked so no big deal, right?

[chickadee]

I hope they lock the guy up and throw away the key. And for company, he can have a computer that give the message “no access” every time he clicks the mouse.

Network admins in bureaucracies are mean, brutish creatures with no people skills. They have ones and zeros where their hearts are supposed to be. Their mothers are Cold Fusion and their fathers are 404.

[shadowgovernment]

hmmmm, could be ICE and FBI investigations were getting a little toooo close..very convent to loose the data.

[alloysteel]

This is funny in so many ways (after all, it happened to SAN FRANCISCO!) but definitely with a sinister cast. This guy just has a bad attitude concerning the City of San Francisco, but supposing he had some agenda other than personal. Well, maybe he has, but so far, it has not been revealed.

The San Francisco police department should be ready to start waterboarding, and maybe that would not be a bad tool to have available.

[shadowgovernment]

convent = convenient

[thefactor]

"You're WELCOME!"

[HawaiianGecko]

Watch for San Francisco to be the first American city to water board an employee.

[Night Hides Not]

Methinks this dude watched “Office Space” too many times.

[Oldexpat]

We need a picture of the twerp to decide if he is guilty as charged.
He is probably a raging fag getting his revenge on the world.

[CougarGA7]

Never make your IT guy angry.

[Rebelbase]

Neo, follow the white rabbit.....

[NurdlyPeon]

And he said he wants a new car. One that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage. The police replied that if he would give up the codes, they would even throw in a Blaupunct.........

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I once shut down a Control Data mainframe in Minneapolis inadvertently! I was at their computer tech school in Cleveland( a total scam on taxpayer's money by the way!). I signed on to take a test as Dr. Hysteresis, was distracted, and forgot to sign off. Somehow that shut things down. They traced it to Cleveland. The instructor had to ask the class who Dr. Hysteresis was. Unfortunately, I had gone out for lunch!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I bet the SF crowd would gladly use waterboarding on the creep if it would get him to cough up the password.

Liberals have a very high standard of ethics when it comes to other people, but it's generally pretty low for themselves.

[TexasCajun]

Hack The World:

PW = obama08