http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176060/Childs_found_guilty_in_SF_network_password_case?taxonomyId=17 By Robert McMillan IDG News Service April 27, 2010 Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Childs now faces a maximum of five years in prison after jurors determined that he had violated California's computer crime law by refusing to hand over passwords to the city's FiberWAN to Richard Robinson, the chief operations officer for the city's Department of Technology and Information Services (DTIS). Although the city's network continued to run, San Francisco went 12 days without administrative control of the FiberWAN, and that constituted a denial of service -- illegal under state law. Childs' lawyers had argued that he was a buttoned-down, security-obsessed administrator who believed he was simply doing his job. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 22:05:59 PDT
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