A superb story from San Fransciso (well used to legal oddities following the twinkie defence). Essentially a network manager for the city had refused to hand over admin passwords for the city's routers and configured them all to wipe themselves if they are reset.
He's now in jail but the possibility exists that he still has other means of access to the network and the city are spending c$1m to try to secure the network. (Doubtless they are using Cisco, who probably never paid for stealing their name)
Truly network managers and DBA's are the most powerful people on the planet.
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Good past Adam, I blogged on this end of July http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-collaboration-technology-blog/2008/07/jack-bauer-ctu-where-are-you-n.html , I bet its happended load of times elsewhere but they just have not made the press.
Posted by Ian White | September 12, 2008 4:14 PM
Posted on September 12, 2008 16:14