Network Held Hostage, Cyberterror Battle Plan, Evil Genius Wannabe
A City of San Francisco systems administrator is a living testimonial to the importance of preventing any one person in an organization from having too much power. Terry Childs, who is now in jail, holds in his brain the passwords that will let city officials access San Francisco’s Fiber Wide Area Network. Apparently, Childs was cheesed off that his supervisors tried to fire him for poor job performance, so he created an account that gave him exclusive access to the network, then refused to tell anyone the password.
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Network Held Hostage, Cyberterror Battle Plan, Evil Genius Wannabe
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