San Francisco's Rogue Network Admin

Terry Childs, a network administrator for the city of San Francisco, CA (USA), has been charged with computer tampering in a highly significant case. Mr. Childs is reportedly Cisco certified and the lead network engineer for the city, a place he worked for several years.

Unlike cases where hackers sabotage networks to cause excessive downtime or steal data, no such damage has apparently taken place in San Francisco (yet). Instead, Mr Childs has allegedly prevented anyone else but himself from being able to manage core components of the city network by making unauthorized changes to the access controls of routers. He now faces multiple U.S. felony court charges.

Some news reports have asserted this "ego driven" man has effectively "taken hostage" San Francisco's computer network, but many key facts surrounding this matter are still in doubt. Certainly, though, many Information Technology managers have feared this worst-case scenario happening to their network.

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