Man Accused Of Compromising San Francisco Network Heads To Court
Aaron Wilmot
August 03, 2008
There has really been a lot of legal news coming out of the San Francisco bay are as of late. The lawyers there are working overtime these days. According to various media reports resident Terry Childs has been accused of locking out authorized network administrators and has refused to give up passwords for the city computer network he assisted in building. Childs is scheduled to make an appearance at a July 23 hearing. In addition to the upcoming court proceeding, he has also been placed on administrative leave while he is awaiting the trial.
Childs plead not guilty to four felony counds of computer network tampering and one count of causing excessive loss that is reported to be nearly a quarter of a million dollars all told. Just another day at the office in the world of cyber-crime.
Currently Childs bail is set at some five million dollars and he is likewise scheduled for another bail hearing this coming week. When Child´s current bail was set his lawyer argued that the bail for those who commit murder or other serious personal injury is usually set at around one million dollars.
According to the Department of Technology there are still portions of the network that are locked down; some of the records that are kept on this network include records and law enforcement documents and approximately sixty percent of the city of San Francisco´s traffic information. This includes email prison inmate booking records and other information for San Francisco. That is an awful lot of important data that is being held hostage. By the way if you happen to live either in the city of San Francisco or surrounding bay area including Oakland and you need a San Francisco personal injury Lawyer you may want to consider Righthand Law.
It has been reported that Department of Technology Ron Vinson has stated that they have control of the FiberWan network and are working with their forensics team to regain complete access. He also stated that while Childs has not been dismissed he does have the authority to fill Childs position while he is on administrative leave awaiting trial. He also stated that his department will accelerate the plan it had to increase security on the FiberWan network. Looking at the long term trends, it appears that serious cyber-crime is on the increase worldwide and there are no some lawyers who are starting to specialize in these sorts of violations.
Childs plead not guilty to four felony counds of computer network tampering and one count of causing excessive loss that is reported to be nearly a quarter of a million dollars all told. Just another day at the office in the world of cyber-crime.
Currently Childs bail is set at some five million dollars and he is likewise scheduled for another bail hearing this coming week. When Child´s current bail was set his lawyer argued that the bail for those who commit murder or other serious personal injury is usually set at around one million dollars.
According to the Department of Technology there are still portions of the network that are locked down; some of the records that are kept on this network include records and law enforcement documents and approximately sixty percent of the city of San Francisco´s traffic information. This includes email prison inmate booking records and other information for San Francisco. That is an awful lot of important data that is being held hostage. By the way if you happen to live either in the city of San Francisco or surrounding bay area including Oakland and you need a San Francisco personal injury Lawyer you may want to consider Righthand Law.
It has been reported that Department of Technology Ron Vinson has stated that they have control of the FiberWan network and are working with their forensics team to regain complete access. He also stated that while Childs has not been dismissed he does have the authority to fill Childs position while he is on administrative leave awaiting trial. He also stated that his department will accelerate the plan it had to increase security on the FiberWan network. Looking at the long term trends, it appears that serious cyber-crime is on the increase worldwide and there are no some lawyers who are starting to specialize in these sorts of violations.
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