Terry Childs, whose most notable claim to fame was bringing down the City/County of San Francisco’s network, will be standing trial for his stunts. In a nutshell, he locked down the cities FiberWAN network by changing, and then not disclosing, the password on one of their main routers. It is reported that about 60% of the cities network traffic passes through this router causing untold losses.
Source: The Register
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Mike Wright
