According to numerous press reports, the San Francisco cyber coup has ended. After San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with Terry Childs (the senior network admin), Childs handed over the network passwords to the mayor who was "the only person he felt he could trust" acording to his lawyer.
In case you missed this last week, I wrote a blog on how the cyber coup started.
Earlier this week, InfoWorld ran a detailed story on the latest developments. Here's an excerpt:
Childs' attorney has asked the judge to reduce Childs $5 million bail
bond, describing her client as a man who felt himself surrounded by
incompetents and supervised by a manager who he felt was undermining his
work. "None of the persons who requested the password information from Mr. Childs ... were qualified to have it," she said in a court filing.
Over the past week, many stories have surfaced regarding potential motives and the wider circumstances around this case. A ComputerWorld blog claimed to have an insider who told all. Here's a quote: "Like many network administrators who work in the rarified air of enterprise network architecture and administration, Childs apparently trusted no one but himself with the details of te network, including routing configuration and log-in information."
No doubt, we will hear many different versions of this story over the coming months (maybe years). I can't help thinking that we'll all be watching this story on a big screen a few years from now ...
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