Wednesday, September 24, 2008

How many of you do background checks on your IT employees?

The Washington Post has an excellent article today regarding the City of San Francisco/Terry Childs debacle. Its findings appear to confirm suspicions regarding both Mr. Childs' true intentions as well as the City's outright ineptitude.

First, the findings on Mr. Childs, straight from the Post:
Terry Childs, 43, was arrested July 13 at his suburban home, where police found $10,000 in cash, diagrams of the city-county computer network, a co-worker's access card, a loaded 9mm magazine and several loose .45-caliber rounds. Under the user name Maggot617, he hijacked the system and refused to turn over passwords for the network, which superiors belatedly discovered only he controlled

ComputerWorld Article

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