Paul Venezia, The Deep EndWould you give root-level passwords to a room full of people you didn't know? That may have been San Francisco's untenable choice to its notorious network admin.... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndIf Childs is convicted of some charges actually brought against him, any network admin could go to jail for doing their job... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndIn a time of corporate strife, keep a close eye on potential new threats... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndSome documents from the public record of the Terry Childs v City of San Francisco case... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndI've been reading some reports on the Childs' case in the mainstream and IT media today, and I'm fairly amazed at the level of misinformation out there right now... more
An inside source reveals details of missteps and misunderstandings in the curious case of Terry Childs, network kidnapper... more
In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another.... more
Administrators are still locked out of the city's VoIP system and LANs within the Sheriff's Department and the Recreation & Park Department... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndThe wheels of justice are indeed turning slowly... more
IT administrator Terry Childs is in jail for previously refusing to hand over the admin passwords to the city's multimillion dollar WAN... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndThirty minutes with San Francisco's most famous network administrator... more
Terry Childs is accused of setting up an unauthorized access system and holding much of the city of San Francisco's computer network hostage... more
The SF rogue admin Terry Childs installed a 'terminal server,' which appears to be a router, on the city's network, but investigators haven't been able to find or log into it... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndTerry Childs remains in jail for lack of $5 million bail. Apparently, the city claims that there are still three networks that remain "locked", and bullets were found in Childs' home during the police search. The city also brought up his 25-year-old felony conviction. But to keep him on $5 million bail, there has to be more to this story. Has to be. [ Follow the Terry Childs saga with InfoWorld special report: T... more
San Francisco's network-abuse claims raise more questions than answers... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndFormer network admin for city of San Francisco appeared for another hearing last week, after months of postponements... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndAfter 14 months in jail, Childs now stands accused of a single charge of violating a 'denial of service' statute that shouldn't apply here... more
Paul Venezia, The Deep EndAfter two years, the curious case of Terry Childs concludes with a guilty verdict. But the ripples may be felt for quite some time by IT workers all over the country... more
After refusing to hand over administrative passwords, Terry Childs has been held in county jail for almost 14 months... more
The admin who kept San Francisco network passwords now faces a maximum of five years in prison... more
Though Juror No. 4 had sympathy for Terry Childs, he says holding San Francisco's network hostage was breaking California's hacking laws... more
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