Don't screw with the gatekeeper....

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(07-14) 19:23 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- 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.
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Nothing like a little blackmail.

I heard stories once of a broadcast engineer that essentially did the same thing when fired - shut off transmitter and refused to give remote "turn-on" codes or door lock codes....

Doncha bet the city wishes it had bought a system based on Windows?

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wsuffa said:
Nothing like a little blackmail.

I heard stories once of a broadcast engineer that essentially did the same thing when fired - shut off transmitter and refused to give remote "turn-on" codes or door lock codes....

Doncha bet the city wishes it had bought a system based on Windows?

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The taxpayer/voters need to remove the entire administration.

The "we don't know the passwords" deal is no more than we don't know nuttin.' Competent management would never let any such thing happen.

I guar-an-%$^-tee you that any of a few thousand competent techie souls walking around the streets out there could get the full access back in an hour two. Now that the same stoopid management has said it's worth a few million dollars, they will get to review the bids from consulting companies to "fix" the problem for .9 of a few million dollars...plus the additional time and materials cost for the things needing done that aren't spelled out in the contract.
 
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I'm occasionally tempted, but the Secret Service and FBI guys who I work with have NO sense of humor about this stuff. So I leave my client's networks alone.
 
TMetzinger said:
I'm occasionally tempted, but the Secret Service and FBI guys who I work with have NO sense of humor about this stuff. So I leave my client's networks alone.
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I've had employers that *thought* I'd do such I thing but one reason I don't work for them anymore because they never groked that I'm a professional.

This guy is going to giving up a lot more than passwords directly.
 
mikea said:
I guar-an-%$^-tee you that any of a few thousand competent techie souls walking around the streets out there could get the full access back in an hour two. Now that the same stoopid management has said it's worth a few million dollars, they will get to review the bids from consulting companies to "fix" the problem for .9 of a few million dollars...plus the additional time and materials cost for the thinsg needing done that aren't spelled out in the contract.
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From the good ole' days: Just get Zero Cool and Acid Burn on the case...

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Moron. Now his resume is screwed for life.

Oh well. What did he expect?
 
"I am the keymaster, are you the gatekeeper?"

Sorry, someone had to say it after reading this thread title...
 
This little scenario won't help this twit when it comes time for sentencing. His only hope is jury nullification at trial by a bunch of idiots hating the evil business owners.
 
I worked for a company which built & sold network storage systems. We wrote system & driver level code for most of the prominent network systems in those days (mid 90's). We had a significant layoff - which included the network administrator. He was given a 90 day deal rather than the 30 days most folks got. He changed the passwords on all the servers, went home for the weekend and called the CFO demanding a different deal. He got one. He never set foot in the plant again. I don't know if he went to jail or not, but I do know we had access to every server in under an hour. Most of us SW types had floppys (you remeber those, right?) that would boot and unlock whatever operating system we worked on. As soon as you have physical access to the box, you have access. There are exceptions, but few companies are that paranoid.

John
 
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