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A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.

Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of computer tampering and is scheduled to be arraigned today.

Prosecutors say Childs, who works in the Department of Technology at a base salary of just over $126,000, tampered with the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored.

Childs created a password that granted him exclusive access to the system, authorities said. He initially gave pass codes to police, but they didn't work. When pressed, Childs refused to divulge the real code even when threatened with arrest, they said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BAOS11P1M5.DTL

this reminds me of the last Die Hard movie - wonder if he got the idea from it ?

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mcs328

I wonder why he did it? He makes over 6 figures already. That's not enough?

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ShawnLee

I hope it's something philosophical and meaningful and not just something cheesy like money.

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