This blunder by the DA is proof of the incompetence that surrounds the city administration. I can only think that the lawyers for Mr. Childs are having a field day with this and one would only have to review the comments in Network World to have an arsenal of replys to the city's charges. Remember, many of the readers of this publications are experts in the field of networking and security!
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The whole thing is a blunder
It's my opinion that the situation has been mishandled pretty much from the get-go. Clearly there are security processes and policies that need to be evaluated and revisited (or a distinct lack of such policies).
San Fran should be thinking about dumping whomever they have leading and advising them on security and bringing in resources that can actually secure the data while preventing a situation such as this in the future. It's not that complicated to do.
Finally, the fact that they have not yet reset ALL passwords yet is ridiculous. The entire city is at risk. But why did this even wait until the DA made such a mistake? A reset of all passwords should have been required - and an audit of those resets (specifically: where they were reset FROM)- at the first indication that there was a security breach.
Incompetance
Well, if Child's lawyer is trying to prove incompetence, it's certainly nice of the city DA to help provide further evidence! This is massive incompetence and they need to fire the lot of them and start over. Stop using Childs as a scapegoat - it's starting to look like the only thing he's guilty of is lack of tact.
While there is blame to go around, Childs is far from innocent
As I recall, this gentleman who was guilty of lack of tact also had around $10K in cash on his person when he was arrested. That indicates the possibility of flight at the very least, which would be indicative of a guilty state of mind.
Clearly there were, are, and likely will continue to be security issues at the City of SF if they continue to rely on the same resources to manage and/or define their security model - but that does not excuse a network admin from doing what Childs is accused of doing.
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