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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

During the recent Hollywood writers’ strike, Joss Whedon found the cure for all his sudden downtime. The man who gave us “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly” created a genre-busting musical about a mad doctor with a bad case of evil-mastermind-wannabe inferiority complex. And the only place to fill this prescription for cult horror-comedy? The Internet. Whedon, using his own money, called up some actor friends — including “How I Met Your Mother’s” Neil Patrick Harris — and shot on unused Universal Studios lots.

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Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’ Triggers Downed Server Epidemic

Hungryhouse, a site that helps users find and order takeaways online, came away from a Dragons’ Den appearance last year with the promise of a