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SFist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Despite the God-like powers of Mayor Gavin Newsom's bedroom eyes, large hands, and gravely voice that managed to woo Terry Childs to handover the passwords to City Hall's system, administrators are still having trouble accessing some parts of the network, or so says Network World. Admins, it seems, are "still locked out of the city's VoIP system and LANs within the Sheriff's Department and the Recreation...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember Terry Childs, the guy who changed the passwords on San Francisco's government IT network the other week? The Chronicle reports that "a team of code crackers brought in from Cisco Systems had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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SFist (Free subscription) | yesterday
With a whole lot of charm and little bit of pluck, Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the much-needed passwords from former IT nerd Terry Childs during a jailhouse visit last night. If you recall, Childs, City Hall's former network administrator , has been incarcerated since July 13 after failing to handover the correct security codes to his bosses after getting the boot. Newsom, it seems, had a secret...
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NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | yesterday
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the passwords for his city's hacked computer network Tuesday night.
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Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Wedding Hype of the Century!! Details from Gavin Newsom’s upcoming weekend nup tuals. Saturday evening: The wedding, 7 o’clock back at the Bitterroot ranch. The ceremony will take place in a field - no frills, no flowers even. The wedding theme: “Out of Africa in Montana.” The attire: light fabrics, neutral colors and earth tones . Ladies, flat shoes are a must , as the terrain is uneven. Gentlemen,...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]PC World[/b] 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. .... On Monday afternoon, he handed the passwords over to Mayor Newsom, who...
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One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
ICE wants access to SF jails Matt O’Brien Contra Costa Times SAN FRANCISCO — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday called on Mayor Gavin Newsom to allow the federal agency full access to information about local inmates, saying the city should rescind its policy that prohibits ICE agents from reviewing jail logs and records. A letter [...]
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
sfgate.com | S.F. mayor gets keys to city's computer(07-22) 18:11 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." Those words - delivered to Mayor Gavin Newsom by imprisoned city computer tech Terry Childs in a small, fourth-floor room at city jail Monday - signaled the beginning of the end of the weeklong...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco was enlisted to coax a secret code out of a city engineer who prosecutors say had effectively hijacked a large part of the city’s computer systems.
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Much to the delight of San Francisco computer network officials, Mayor Gavin Newsom was given the password so the city can again have access to its computer network after it was hijacked by a city employee.
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
A computer engineer who allegedly blocked the city of San Francisco out of its own computer system has given the mayor the access codes, officials say.Terry Childs, the jailed computer technician gave Mayor Gavin Newsom passwords and access codes during a secret jailhouse meeting, KTVU-TV, San Francisco reported Wednesday.Prosecutors say Childs, 43, deliberately blocked access to parts of the city's...
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CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Charismatic San Franciso Mayor Gavin Newsom, did it again, this time convincing rogue network administrator Terry Childs to hand over passwords to the city’s captive network. Childs was jailed July 13 after hijacking the city’s multimillion network and refusing to hand over passwords to the system. Though city officials said the network had been [...]
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | yesterday
DENNIS KUCINICH: Thanks to you, impeachment will be heard Friday. GAVIN NEWSOM: Talking Points Memo interviewed San Francisco's mayor at Netroots Nation. DESPERATE: John McCain says "it seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order...
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TechNewsWorld (Free subscription) | yesterday
Usually, it's a mayor who hands out the key to his or her city to residents deserving special recognition. In San Francisco's case, it was Mayor Gavin Newsom who took back the key to his city's computer network from the man who held it hostage for more than a week.
