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1. Comment - Usernames and passwords to San Francisco network exposed in court docs

   (Jul 30, 2008 - 11:34 AM)

   Let me ask you a serious question preinterpost, do you work in IT as a network admin? If you did, you would realize that some of the things the prosecution is accusing Terry of are standard procedures so you can maintain the integrity of your network. Likewise, superusers (enterprise admins) have to have full access to the network in order to perform a number of duties. Superusers have to have access to data in order to back it up, decrypt it if someone loses their decryption keys, and be able to get to any location on the network to tell if the network is functioning properly. What superusers also have to have is the ethics to realize what data they *should* actually look at vs. what they *shouldn't* look at.
   
   If Terry's lawyer plays her cards right, she's going to show that Terry was doing everything right and that the management of San Fransisco's IT deparement is incompetient and negligent. Doing that and Terry will get off and Terry will then be able to turn around and sue the City of San Fransisco for wrongful jail time, ruining his reputation, and a few other things, and he'll win that as well if his lawyers play things right.

2. Comment - Usernames and passwords to San Francisco network exposed in court docs

   (Jul 29, 2008 - 12:06 PM)

   Wow, just wow...
   
   The Prosecution is really showing that Terry is in the right. They, the Prosecution, do not understand network principals and that what Terry was doing is normal for someone that has enterprise level administration over large networks.
   
   From reading through this article, I can already see where Terry was using the principles of least access, making sure that there were alternate ways to administer equipment that could not be contacted through normal means (modems attached to networking equipment if the network is not functioning properly), and making sure that passwords for accounts with high level access were kept securely. Terry's lawyer is going to have a field day with the Prosecution's court filings and I can see that Terry will likely be found not guilty in the end and the City of San Fransisco is going to have a huge civil case brought against it.