Thoughts 11 Sep 2008 01:50 pm
Fun in San Francisco
Do you remember Terry Childs, the network admin who refused to tell his bosses how to get into the city’s own network.
Well guess who’s back in the news.
The City of San Francisco has hired people to try and fix the problem Mr Childs created and expect to spend something on the order of $1million by the time they’re done. And they still can’t locate at least one terminal server that has a login warning says the device is “the property of Terry S. Childs.”
In court filings, prosecutors say Childs has not provided passwords to city-owned encrypted hard drives or access to two Corsair Flash Survivor USB drives that may contain sensitive information.
As far as I can tell this guy feels that it’s “his network” and they’ll just break it if he lets them in.
With his next court appearance on Sept 24th and with the 7 years he’s facing, I’d be willing to wager that his attorney told him that the passwords and so on will make excellent bargaining material.
This strategy may work since the so-called justice system is not so much about “justice” as “let’s make a deal.”