Gavin Newsom Gets back keys to city network

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Source: PC World

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion dollar wide area network.
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On Monday afternoon, he handed the passwords over to Mayor Newsom, who was "the only person he felt he could trust," according to a declaration filed in court by his attorney, Erin Crane. Newsom is ultimately responsible for the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) where Childs worked for the past five years
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In interviews, current and former DTIS staffers describe Childs as a well respected co-worker who may have gone too far under the pressure of working in a department that had been demoralized and drastically cut as the city moved forward with plans to decentralize IT operations.

About 200 of the department's 350 IT positions had been cut since 2000, mostly to be relocated to other divisions within city government, said Richard Isen, IT chapter president with Childs' union, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21.

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Here is basically a man who took his charge of protecting the integrity of the network seriously.
He did not feel those in charge competent enough to handle this information,which, kind of makes sense.
He is going to be demonized for this which is sad, because IMHO his message is a very good one.

Management is clueless, and irresponsible... and they sure as fuck don't PAY their IT workers anything NEAR what they are worth considering the valuable information that passes over the network.