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- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...
- Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...
- Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail
- This is crazy. Perhaps literally. Terry Childs, computer network administrator for the city of San Francisco, got mad, apparently because his supervisors were trying to fire him, and created a secret root password for himself, locking out the rest of the city. Reported the SF Chronicle: ...
- Tags: City, Network Administration, Network, Terry Childs, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
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- Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web
- Hack-the-T presentation hits the WebMBTA made it publically available anyway...Look, the orginal paper didn't include the most sensative material anyway. But the MBTA did obtain that though a court order and then submitted it to the courts in a way that made it publically available. sheesh. It...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web, MBTA, Hack-the-T presentation, Hack-the-T, extradition, messenger
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail
- Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...
- Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city
- "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...
- Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Evil tech administrators
- Terry Childs sits in a San Francisco jail, accused of locking down the city government network and refusing to give up the passwords. Though it's not completely fair, past negative experience of overly controlling technical administrators colors my perception of him. by John Carroll
- Tags: Administrator, Computer, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city
- 'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and citysome network admins are just crazyI had a temp job at a major firm once, back when Win98 was standard. I decided to change the wallpaper on my computer once, using an image that was located on a network share to which...
- Tags: NETWORKING, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- 'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city
- Paul Venezia at PC World has an exclusive insider account on Terry Childs, the rogue network admin who locked everyone out of the city's network. The story in essence is Childs is an extreme control freak who built and maintained an extremely complex network, perhaps...
- Tags: Administrator, Network, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage
- What inquiring minds want to know about the Terry Childs business is How? How did a network guy earn $149,269 a year - and how could he have locked the city out of its own system so effectively that remediation is going to cost millions without bringing that system down?...
- Tags: Computer Network, Network, Payroll, Computer, Productivity, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Networking, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- The Techie Hall of Shame
- A SFGate story began this week with the all-too-familiar line--"A disgruntled computer engineer..." before going on to list the disgrace of the day, in this case virtually commandeering San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network and hacking it to deny access to top administrators. He's now locked up with a $5...
- Tags: Network, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Security, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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