Terry Childs Found Guilty In SF Computer Tampering Trial

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by UmYeah • 16 years ago

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tptacek• 16 years ago

Terry Childs sounds mentally ill. Was that raised in the trial?

madair3• 16 years ago

What a mentally ill conclusion to jump to. If this opinion is founded on news and blogs, its not founded on very much at all.

pyre• 16 years ago

I can't quite grasp the message that you're trying to send here. Is this supposed to be a jab at 'the media?' Or is this supposed to be some sort of pro-mental-health message?

jsz0• 16 years ago

He seems like the typical self aggrandizing possessive network engineer type to me. If we classify that as a mental illness they'll probably have to shut down the Internet. From what I've seen in the industry it's not uncommon for people in that position with little supervision or support to run amok. Network engineers need to be treated like tolerable dictators sometimes. If someone lets them get out of control bad things will happen. Not defending his actions at all but we could examine any profession and find behaviors that look a lot like mental illness.

ghshephard• 16 years ago

Actually, a reasonable article. Particularly the followup with a juror who was a Network Engineer (Chilton). I like the following statement:

"Chilton, however, said Childs' supervisors at the Department of Technology were also to blame. He said they "did everything wrong that they possibly could," citing "ineffective management and no formalized policies and procedures" for dealing with employees in such situations."

As one who manages a fairly large team of Network Engineers, I find it hard to believe how painfully absent the city's management must have been to let things go as far as they did. Clearly the city wasn't using two-factor authentication, vaulted enable passwords, or nightly backed up configs (Rancid or role your own) - all of which are pretty bog standard network-manager checklists.

Terry Childs Found Guilty In SF Computer Tampering Trial

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