do you reckon when they told him that the passwords he gave them didnt work he said "ha! fail". as funny as this is, its pretty serious. it wont end well for him, thats for sure
It can get scary working in IT at just how much info you actually have access to and what damage you could do if you were so inclined... At a previous job i was on the IT helpdesk for a significantly large UK bank, for a insultingly low wage (couldn't say anything at the time, first IT job) with a FULL Domain Administrator account*, ie: access to all of the data available to the company... It's quite worrying really, if i was inclined to i could have done untold amounts of damage, got copies of full credit card databases etc and all with it being fairly untraceable if you were careful... I'm just very glad i've only met very decent people in IT that have access to such data. There does seem to be a big skill in IT managers choosing trustworthy people for such positions as a whole *Irony time: i'm currently working for my local council, they have significantly better IT security than this large bank did!
That is actually quite scary... Though don't worry - most IT techies spend all their time on here anyway As for the article, I suppose the dude needs some therapy... a change of job, a holiday, a new car. Take a chill pill...
Quite entertaining I have to say. I assume they don't have any kind of psychological screening process. Ah well, to late now, I just hope for his sake he gives over the password soon or it really won't be good for him.
Sorry, but i couldn't help my self but laugh, but's he planning on doing? Holding the city to ransom from inside a cell block? "Err, yea, i want millions of dollars, and a visa to Mexico?" Hahaha Sam
Just an update. According to this article they're still locked out of some parts of the system, and he's still in jail refusing to cough up the passwords. From the article...
What I've been hearing (BOL) is that he didn't feel that the people he was supposed to turn the network over to were 'competent' to keep it running. In his defense, the network has been running flawlessly.
Update, he gave up the passwords to the mayor in a secret meeting Sounds like maybe a little paranoia going on there, perhaps?
or maybe its all true and he dealt with it the wrong way..... guess we probably wont hear about it now though
S'kinda pathetic that they didn't have some backup root/admin access... And I kinda understand where the guy is coming from.. I'm highly protective of my code and databases at work
i think he had great concern about the networks security and locked it down to make him self heard, people at the top can be rather deaf at times, especailly when big sums of money are required to update current hardware and software. either that or that was the only way he could get hoilday!
Is he still going to be charged with improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service????
this is crap again. they probably do know why he did it and are just using some lame excuse to make him look bad. i doubt he would put third party monitoring software on it. hes probably smarter than that. i wonder why hes actually doing it.
