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Could the Childs case put all network admins in danger? (on infoworld)What’s interesting here isn’t the charges themselves, but the charges that are missing. Namely, the charge of sabotage, computer tampering, or the like. Apparently the very allegation that’s kept him in jail for seven months wasn’t strong enough to be presented to the court as a charge.And as Venezia mentions later:
My other rants on this 5 | 4 | 3 etc… (most are links to infoworld or sfgate)In fact, if Childs is convicted of the first count for withholding passwords, it could be argued that if any network administrator fat-fingers an AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting) configuration in a router, rendering it inaccessible for management but otherwise functioning normally, that admin has committed the same crime, albeit through negligence.
