San Francisco city system administrator found guilty of stealing passwords from city WAN network
wired.com reports :
“After 6 months of the trial, the San Francisco City System Administrator was found guilty of the crime of seizing a city’s computer network.
Terry Childs, 45, was accused of blocking a city's fiber optic network , which included city email, payroll records, police records, information about prisoners, and so on. - almost all the activities of the city administration.
Childs was arrested in July 2008 after he refused to give passwords to the city's WAN network, which he illegally took control of. San Francisco jurors pondered the verdict for a week.
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The security for the release of Childs was set at $ 5 million, which is five times higher than for those accused of murder, because the authorities fear that if he is released, he can finally block the system and erase all data (idiot!) comment perev.).
The city optical WAN network is part of the core network of the consolidated city and state computing infrastructure, connecting hundreds of different departments and buildings with a common Data Center and with each other. Over 60% of San Francisco traffic goes through this network.
Childs worked as a computer technician for 5 years before his arrest. He received $ 126,000 (per year, approx. Transfers) as a salary and as a bonus another $ 22,500 for participating in solving problems with network malfunction. Access to the system was restored when Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke with the jailed Childs, where Childs finally handed the passwords to the mayor.
The maximum that awaits Childs is 5 years in prison, the deadline will be set on June 14. "
upd: some bugs corrected in translation, thanks to dmetrius for attentiveness
“After 6 months of the trial, the San Francisco City System Administrator was found guilty of the crime of seizing a city’s computer network.
Terry Childs, 45, was accused of blocking a city's fiber optic network , which included city email, payroll records, police records, information about prisoners, and so on. - almost all the activities of the city administration.
Childs was arrested in July 2008 after he refused to give passwords to the city's WAN network, which he illegally took control of. San Francisco jurors pondered the verdict for a week.
')
The security for the release of Childs was set at $ 5 million, which is five times higher than for those accused of murder, because the authorities fear that if he is released, he can finally block the system and erase all data (idiot!) comment perev.).
The city optical WAN network is part of the core network of the consolidated city and state computing infrastructure, connecting hundreds of different departments and buildings with a common Data Center and with each other. Over 60% of San Francisco traffic goes through this network.
Childs worked as a computer technician for 5 years before his arrest. He received $ 126,000 (per year, approx. Transfers) as a salary and as a bonus another $ 22,500 for participating in solving problems with network malfunction. Access to the system was restored when Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke with the jailed Childs, where Childs finally handed the passwords to the mayor.
The maximum that awaits Childs is 5 years in prison, the deadline will be set on June 14. "
upd: some bugs corrected in translation, thanks to dmetrius for attentiveness
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/92227/
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