Da-Chief
07-17-2008, 14:41
Countless people have submitted this story (http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/148427) about a network administrator for the city of San Francisco, who was arrested last weekend after he locked down a multi-million dollar city network, then refused to hand over the passwords. Apparently, 43-year-old Terry Childs, who had a $150,000 position with the city, had recently been criticized by management for performance problems (I enjoy the Chronicle's writeup (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=18&entry_id=28244)). Meanwhile Techdirt (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080716/0225551698.shtml) points to the case of another disgruntled tech in Lichtenstein, who sold customer bank records to a variety of countries to help those governments find and arrest tax cheats.
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