WTF??

Secret room

On Monday, when Childs supplied three user names and an access code to Newsom, officials learned they could use them to get onto the system only at a computer in a room at the Hall of Justice that even police technology experts were unaware of.

Investigators say they are still worried about the modems hidden away in locked filing cabinets in public buildings around the city. Maupin told prosecutors that city officials estimate there are 1,100 such modems. Childs could still gain access to the network through any of them and create more mischief, prosecutors say.

In arguing that his bail not be lowered, prosecutors said a search of Childs’ Pittsburg home turned up a co-worker’s identification. They said they fear he could impersonate other employees to obtain access to the network.

They also said he had $10,000 cash on him when he was arrested, supporting their fear he would be a flight risk if released.

Childs’ attorney maintains Childs is being scapegoated by incompetent officials resentful of his abilities in computer network management. The modems he installed in locked cabinets, she said in a bail reduction motion, were for the “sole purpose of maintaining the system.”

Some of the protections, she said, were put in place after Childs concluded that a colleague inadvertently infected the city’s network with a virus two years ago. It was Childs who put up the firewalls, with management approval, she said.

And, pray tell, what were his BOSSES doing all this time?  Sounds like they let their network admin run AMOK.  This is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.  Wack Wack Wack

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/23/BANU11TS7I.DTL