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

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Oh, just lovely. Want to bet he's been selling information to criminals on the side, too?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I believe the article did mention that speculation, and that he may even have been selling access to the systems.