Rough Justice For Terry Childs 418
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia sees significant negative ramifications for IT admins in the wake of yesterday's guilty verdict for Terry Childs on a count of 'denial of service.' Assuming the verdict is correct, Venezia writes, 'shouldn't the letter of the law be applied to other "denial of service" problems caused by the city while they pursued this case? In particular, to the person or persons who released hundreds of passwords in public court filings in 2008 for causing a denial of service for the city's widespread VPN services? After all, once the story broke that a large list of usernames and passwords had been released to the public, the city had to take down its VPN services for days while they reset every password and communicated those changes to the users.' Worse, if upheld on appeal, the verdict puts a vast number of IT admins at risk. 'There are suddenly thousands of IT workers all over the country that are now guilty of this crime in a vast number of ways. If the letter of the law is what convicted Terry Childs, then the law is simply wrong.'"
Re:Before everybody gets their shorts all twisted (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, you probably won't be hiring anyone until you stop calling yourself shitdrummer.
Re:If I were taking an IT Admin position... (Score:3, Funny)
"if your boss later tells you to break the rules then you do it."
Is it needed any more to invoke Godwin's law?
Re:Before everybody gets their shorts all twisted (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Before everybody gets their shorts all twisted (Score:3, Funny)
Could I please have your password?
Re:If I were taking an IT Admin position... (Score:3, Funny)
Ahhh... The Nuremberg defense.