When Jurassic Park meets City Hall

[unixronin]

Remember the annoying, slimy hacker in Jurassic Park?  Seems the City of San Francisco has a very similar problem.

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.

Unfortunately, it's probably too much to hope for that this one will get eaten by spitting dinosaurs (or any other kind, for that matter).

Comments

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

Well...130.

And, for a senior admin, that's not a whole hell of a lot around here.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Plus some serious bonuses.

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

actually, from what I know, that's why (esp local to Bay Area) gov make such good salaries. No real bonus structure. No stock options. Good(ish) benefits.

In order to be competitive, they HAVE to lay down big bucks.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

He evidently didn't think so.

'Course, one of my reasons for leaving one former employer was, shall we say, compensation not in accordance with responsibilities of the position. (Further, deponent saith not.)