http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10039650-83.html



By Elinor Mills

Security 

Cnet News

September 11, 2008



San Francisco officials are trying to find a device on the city's 

computer network that was allegedly left there by an IT worker who was 

jailed for refusing to divulge passwords to the city network, the IDG 

News Service reported on Thursday.



San Francisco network administrator Terry Childs was arrested in July on 

four felony charges of taking control of the city's computer network and 

locking administrators out. He remains in jail on $5 million bail 

despite giving up the passwords to the mayor in a secret jail cell 

meeting a week later.



The device, which appears to be a router providing remote access to the 

city's fiber Wide Area Network, was discovered on August 28, the report 

says.



However, officials didn't know where the device was located and didn't 

have the user name and password to access it. When they tried to log in, 

a message was displayed that said the system was the "personal property 

of Terry S. Childs," according to a screenshot officials filed with the 

court.





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