SF network hacker’s bail reduction denied
A judge on Wedn
esday refused to reduce the $5 million bail of a San Francisco technology expert accused of rigging the city’s computer system to malfunction during routine maintenance. Terry Childs has been jailed since July 13 on four felony counts of computer tampering. He is accused of creating secret passwords that gave him exclusive access to the city’s new multi-million-dollar computer network, which stores records such as officials’ e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail bookings. Authorities said Childs initially refused to reveal correct passwords to them, but that he turned them over to Mayor Gavin Newsom during an unusual jailhouse visit Tuesday.
The city is still experiencing computer problems, said San Francisco Deputy District Attorney Conrad del Rosario. He told San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lucy McCabe that the Sheriff’s Department is “locked out” and that other city departments are having problems. Defense attorney Erin Crane said her client was the subject of a smear campaign by co-workers jealous of Childs’ computer savvy and work ethic. In arguing for reduced bail, Crane said in a motion that Childs was merely trying to protect the network after “co-workers and supervisors had in the past maliciously damaged the system themselves, hindered his ability to maintain it … and shown complete indifference to maintaining it themselves.” Crane also said Childs, 43, posed no danger to the public.
Source: AP
Comments(50)
First!
I’ll bet not all Info is being released. No man at that position is that stupid. He was pushed into doing this.
WOW! i wish i was that kid….oh wait before he got caught ;]
I believe it was a smear campaign at childs. co-workers are all out to get ya
Meanwhile, still cant access NTi…
THIS SOUNDS LIKE DIE HARD 4.0 ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!11
HALP
@Johney666 We get it quit spamming us fuktard.
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This is one cool guy.
The jail part however, is not cool.
Dude wins… And Yeh @BustaLinkx, this is basiaclly DH4 again
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@1 “First”
A ban for this idiot, please, staff?
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Yep I’ve seen a few people in High positions that are
complete idiots, that have No business using a computer.
example: “My cup holder broke again.. That’s not a cup holder that is a CDROM”….# 2 My computer screen is Blacked out… Did you try moving the mouse? I didn’t know my computer had mice in it…
These people were supervisors…
The guy should have played more ‘UPLINK’ before doing it
@ Ken
1995 called, it wants its jokes back.
I like where this site is heading.
First, they stopped offering torrent links.
Now, the whole Newtorrents.info is unavailable.
What’s next ?
@19 Updates
http://www.rlslog.net/man-arrested-for-taking-over-san-francisco-network/
TERRY, TERRY, TERRY …
WARNING: Network terryfied ;P
He had set free some hostages after talking to the San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, apparantly the only person who he felt trustworthy giving the passwords to. The mayor was person finally responsible for the involved department. The Boss of the network Ron Vinson said: “Apparantly, Child thinks he owns the network. In fact, it is the loyal tax-payer who does”.
if mc cain wins…terry will be executed.
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Theres an interesting article here, in which one of Child’s co-workers give his account of the whole affair.
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-network-lockout_1.html
Dear @20 (niel mansas):
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@8 “not Stupid” (r u sure?)
You have been getting screwed by the House since birth…
u kidding me..??? lol
Happy and proud NOT being American…. lmao
@8 Hahahah that’s what you get in the home of the free.
Freemasons also want to install a chip underneath every american’s skin and monitor them via satellite.
Don’t want to be an american idiot
thx god (who does not exist, btw) i’m not an american idiot.
@17
lol uplink was a fookin immense game, ahhh the memories
@30… cool, i agree with you pal.
@30
Don’t bash so eagerly. America is far from flawless as far as government and politics go but as far as living here it’s a great place. Yes there are folks out there who get a bit carried away with patriotism but at least we have something to be proud of here in the states. People sometimes say something is as American as apple pie. Well that’s good because I for one like apple pie. And I love my god. And I respect your god. And I’ll be happy to have my chip underneath my skin b/c I hear it comes with xm radio and is bluetooth compatible. On the brighter side of things.. your right your not an American idiot. Your just a plain idiot. Practice saying this…. Touche.
Also i love America, because in some states homosexuals can now get married. I love the fact that 25% of our nation is morbidly obese, me including. I love how our country starts war just for monetary reasons. I love how our country is like nazi germany.
Also i love wearing my mother’s underwear, matter of fact, i’m wearing her panties right now. They also got skidmarks on them, that’s why i love them.
God bless america.
@33 (jaygregz)
Practice your language a bit first, will ya? Your != you’re. n00b
Still waiting for someone to actually make a comment that is intelligent…
You still dont seem to get it. This dweeb intentionally caused damage and knew what he was doing and what his actions would do, thus there is no judge or jury anywhere that is going to take it “easy” on him or let him off with a lite punishment. They are going to throw the book at him and deservedly so. You have social security numbers there as well as addresses so it is complete for identity theft, and in this country as well as Canada; identity theft is now a major felony. And how many workers are on this payroll? The reason I ask is each one of them is a possible different charge so he could be looking at possibly hundreds if not thousands of charges of this felony alone. Now you are looking at the cost to undo what he has done and now that comes into theft of taxpayer funds, and over a set amount that also become a felony. And you know darn well that he is going to be banned from ever being a systems IT guy again for any company or government (state or local) in the US. In short he will be blackballed as no one will touch him for employment in this field. He wont be allowed to leave the US as his skills are too dangerous, and I will even bet he wont be allowed to have a computer ever again or even use the public ones in the local library.
There are other ways he could have brought this to the attention of the higher ups without damaging innocent people, so what he did and what he is going to get is on his head and his head alone. Not to mention that only fools and stupid n00bs would think this is something great…as they usually do right up till they are arrested and then they are crying like the bi%$h they really are.
@37
Your argument failed when you mentioned Canada. The day Canada adopts a felony based judicial system is the day I renounce my citizenship. But I guess you know all about mistakes now, as it’s plainly apparent you’re making them on purpose. Who tries to troll people without even having a well informed argument. At least you should go to grade school a few more times so you can learn some English grammar. That would do you wonders.
@7 Jack
Yor dady was the biggest fVcktard otherwise why would he marry a cheap whore like yor moma knowing it full well that their child will grow up to be the dumbest moron who sh!ts from his open mouth pouring it inside his momma’s stinky flabby hole?
NTi is officially down and only you “think” you are getting it!
The joke’s on you pal!
@35!! LOL. When did the words “ya” and “n00b” become part of the English language? You obviously agreed with everything he had to say, but, you wanted to find something to hate, so the only thing you could come up with was a spelling mistake. Damn, I love hypocrites!! Keep up the good work #35!!!
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“Common Sense” – if you’d read into the case you would know that his superiors were incompitent, non-tech types. The blame lies at their feet too for not establishing and enforcing authentication policies, backups, auditing, cross-training, and separation/rotation of duties etc etc
@38 spewed with extreme ignorance
“@37
Your argument failed when you mentioned Canada. The day Canada adopts a felony based judicial system is the day I renounce my citizenship. But I guess you know all about mistakes now, as it’s plainly apparent you’re making them on purpose. Who tries to troll people without even having a well informed argument. At least you should go to grade school a few more times so you can learn some English grammar. That would do you wonders.”
Whoops, well you had better start renouncing your citizenship n00b as they do in fact have a felony system and you would have known that if you would had bothered to check http://www.canadalegal.info/ref-canada-criminal-law/canada-criminal-law-courts.html
BEFORE opening your mouth to show your ignorance and complete stupidity of your opinion. That site above clearly shows that Canada DOES have a felony system (you freaking dumb@S$) “In Canada, criminal law is enacted by Parliament in Ottawa. The criminal law defines offences, including traditional categories such as assault, murder, robbery, to newer offences involving computers, organized crime, and terrorism. In Canada, if the crime charged is quite serious (called an “Indictable Offence” in Canada and akin to the U.S. “Felony”)”
So why dont you go change your diaper and let the adults who know what they are talking about actually speak. Jeeze the stupidity in here gets younger and younger every day!
@40…PUH-LEAZE. n00b is a word that has been entered into the slang terms in websters, so I guess that I am correct in this. “ya” is also a slang term in Websters New World Dictionary so I am correct in that as well. So xbrewcrewx, the only hypocrit I see here is you who lets your mouth run before your brain kicks in.
42 yes I know what he is saying, but I also read the SF newspapers on line and they are saying something completely different then what he is claiming. Seems this dweeb was very nasty to his co-workers (and if this is the case then he cannot whine and cry about how they treated him) And it clearly shows he went off the deep end when his supposed “evil supervisors” actually tried to get others in to help and give him some much deserved time off. Since this is shown by repeated reports on his conduct in his file (and yes they can show this as he opened it up to allow them when he claimed that they caused this, they now have the right to refute his charges even if that means showing slips where he was wrote up for his actions)
So it clearly shows that there is another side to this then his and by the mounting evidence against him, I will bet that he will be receiving a nice long time to cool his heels at the the grey bar hotel down state from Frisco. And I will also bet that when he gets out of prison, that he will be lucky to get a job washing dishes or sweeping floors. he has no one to blame but himself and it saddens me to see all the idiots that are cheering him on. Want to bet that they would not be cheering so loudly if they were walking in his shoes right now?
common sense:
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You heard me. I told you to put my effin ballsack in ya mouth, homeboy.
You gosh darnit nut-gobbler, soon you\’ll be gobblin on so much nuts people would mistake you for a squirrel.
Put my monster ballsack in ya mouth homeboy and shut ya yappin mouth.
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As an Enterprise Architect I find it odd that Childs is the only one with access to certain systems. Its their own fault that they left one guy to do everything if you ask me.
@8 THANK YOU! That is truly news worthy! I just contacted both of my senators and I hope all Americans will do the same.
I swear I typed http://www.rlslog.net and not http://www.intarwebrage101.com into my browser window, but I must have mistyped.
I’ll try again.
Chill out people, and when I say people I mean the 2 or so odd people who change their names and post 30 times.
It’s a RELASE site, not a computer rights site.
Call Larry King up if you want, otherwise GTFO MAI INTERNETZ.
Thanks, and have a good day.
dude, tell them that you want 1 trillion dollars or sumthin and then you can pay bail. lol.
Hello,
I recall seeing a mention of an article which the link was not posted for earlier. This was the one relating to the accussed’s coworker coming forward. Below is the link:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-network-lockout_1.html