[ISN] Childs found guilty in SF network password case

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:05:59 -0500 (CDT)
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.

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