In July 2008 Terry Childs, a network engineer in San Francisco's city-county
government, was arrested for seizing control of the fiber network,
locking out co-workers and denying officials the passwords to get back
in. Although most of the dust has settled, San Francisco's Department of
Information Technology still has a pile of digital debris that it is shifting
through. Apparently disgruntled network administrator Terry Childs left
a networking device hidden on the city FiberWAN network that, as of
this writing, IT staff are still trying to locate -- months following
Childs' arrest.
The ability of Childs to single-handily hold the San Francisco system hostage raises many questions about how to manage operations in complex public and private systems. READ MORE
The ability of Childs to single-handily hold the San Francisco system hostage raises many questions about how to manage operations in complex public and private systems. READ MORE
