Make him listen to a
....He'll scream, "I'll fix it. I'll fix it. I'll fix it."
Posted on 07/14/2008 8:35:45 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of computer tampering and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Childs, who works in Department of Technology at a base salary of just over $126,000, tampered with the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored.
Childs created a password that granted him exclusive access to the system, authorities said. He initially gave pass codes to police, but they didn't work. When pressed, Childs refused to divulge the real code even when threatened with arrest, they said.
He was taken into custody Sunday. City officials said late Monday that they had made some headway into cracking his pass codes and regaining access to the system.
Childs has worked for the city for about five years. One official with knowledge of the case said he had been disciplined on the job in recent months for poor performance and that his supervisors had tried to fire him.
"They weren't able to do it - this was kind of his insurance policy," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the attempted firing was a personnel matter.
Authorities say Childs began tampering with the computer system June 20. The damage is still being assessed, but authorities say undoing his alleged denial of access to other system administrators could cost millions of dollars.
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But I sure am having a hard time controlling my laughter.
LOL BOFH
If he continues to be ridiculous, I wonder if some waterboarding might give him a new attitude.
Torture him.
Make him listen to a Cher album for 24 hours. He’ll give.
Me too , snicker, no no no, uh, come on now that is funny!
No, Yoko Ono for 12 hours will do the trick.
12 seconds would do it for me!
“”They weren’t able to do it - this was kind of his insurance policy,” “
So does that mean they will have to give him his job back?
I’m guessing that the highest priority for the city officials will be restoring their gay porn.
ping
Know this guy?
Any organization that lets itself get caught this way is too stupid to be using computers in the first place. IMHO.
I bet officials in SF are worried some of their personal stuff will start being disseminated.
Grow up.
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I would think the SF govt would applaud a renegade rebel bucking the evil faceless govt (ooooops, may be not when IT is the govt in question!)
I gotta love this Schaudenfreude moment. Couldn’t happen to a better city. Wonder if Pelosi’s internet is mucked up.
Heh, heh. It’s hard to hold a grudge against anybody who F’s with SF.
/johnny
Sanctuary Francisco is the city that set the precedent for picking and choosing which laws to obey or ignore.
....He'll scream, "I'll fix it. I'll fix it. I'll fix it."
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