Terry Childs Found Guilty 982
A jury in San Francisco found Terry Childs guilty of one felony count of computer tampering. The trial lasted four months. Childs now faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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Terry Childs Found Guilty
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Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
I guess my gut feeling was right: Fuck the users (Score:1, Funny)
Cause they seem to think it's cool to fuck over the administrator protecting them.
12 if the best (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please appeal, (Score:5, Funny)
...holding a city's computer systems random...
Yes, I see where that might be an issue... ;)
Re:Please appeal, (Score:4, Funny)
new tag - I dont care (Score:2, Funny)
Is there an "irrelevant california douchebag" tag we can apply to stories?
Re:Poor jerk. (Score:5, Funny)
Best way to save yourself is to use "fuckyou" or "ihavenoidea" as the main password.
-"Terry for the 50th time: what is the password?"
-"fuckyou"
-"officer, arrest him."
Re:Been there. The Feds hate geeks. (Score:5, Funny)
Look on the bright side, at least you've still got your 5 digit Slashdot user ID!
Re:Please appeal, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Poor jerk. (Score:1, Funny)
At Idiotcorp, where I work, the password rules kept getting more and more crazy every 3 months when we had to renew them ("your password must now include 5 Cyrillic letters, an Elbonian tone-poem, 2 cave drawings" and a guitar chord) that I finally threw up my hands on total randomness and started including certain well-known curse expressions aimed the corporate IT director, whom I held in higher contempt than the rest of the Idiotcorp douchebags directors.
It's been 2 years without repercussions (haven't been called on the carpet yet), so I guess they really do get hashed. Either that or the guys in IT feel the same way.
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Now this is spooky: My captcha is "audited" (swallows hard, since he's using a different browser than the corporate-mandated virus magnet)
Re:Been there. The Feds hate geeks. (Score:5, Funny)
Funnily enough, I actually considered that. Had my daughter log in once a month. B)
Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Poor jerk. (Score:1, Funny)
My password policy is similar. If your mother can type it in without breaking into tears/ vomiting in disgust, it's not strong and/or gross enough.
Re:Poor jerk. (Score:3, Funny)
I agree. The government should impanel special juries comprised of Geek Squad technicians and entry-level LAMP developers just so that Slashdotters can be judged by their "peers".
Re:Poor jerk. (Score:2, Funny)
Kinda related but in first aid training we were told never to give first aid to an American because they'll sue you.
Re:He was an idiot (Score:2, Funny)
Programmers need specs because they don't know how your field of expertise works. Otherwise you get something geared for programmers, not for the kind of person that's supposed to use the software. There are ways to research it but they take a lot of time and can still fail.