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07-15-2008, 12:46 PM
|  | BARACKULA will suck your wallet | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | San Francisco Fire Sale
Well, maybe it's not quite as bad as the hackers in Live Free Or Die Hard, but this guy sure turned San Fran upside down. Quote: |
Originally Posted by SFGate
A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
| He definitely had his bases covered. While in jail, he somehow activated things set in place to shut down the governments computer network. Apparently he believed this was somehow job security... and the San Fran government still can't get complete access to it. What hubris this guy has. As much as he needs to rot in jail, you have to admire the audacity. Call John McClane and the whiney little Mac guy. S.F. officials locked out of computer network
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07-15-2008, 01:11 PM
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07-15-2008, 01:12 PM
|  | i hate goats | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | most of us drop a few back doors or easy ways to do things into our environments, but when you get to this level, it's criminal.
//i call no "back door" comments
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07-15-2008, 01:30 PM
|  | The Tux | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: I Live At StrafeRight
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| | | I am honestly impressed with this...
The thing that the Government has to remember is that anyone who works with computers, software, and does design/engineering for them is going to leave backdoors... It always happens...
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07-15-2008, 01:34 PM
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| | | Thank G-d it isn't teck. Does that account for all sR california members? LOL!
This guy deserves some medal. Then he deserves for said medal to be shoved up his pooter.
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07-15-2008, 03:51 PM
|  | Jack pwns my FACE | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Well above sea level.
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| | | Dang, i'm not surprised though. Sometimes programmers take being called "code monkeys" lightly, other times they're over-worked, under appreciated people doing work trying to satisfy those above who have no clue about what it takes to design and implement a program.
I wonder what kinda damage its doing if nobody can access their system? and if they'll let the guy off just to give it's access back? lol. that's crazyness. but again i'm not totally surprised!
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07-15-2008, 03:56 PM
| | BARACKULA will suck your wallet | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | WAY back when, I used to write chat programs and BBS programs and every damned one had back doors. The reasoning was, you never wanted to be locked out of your own code in case something catastrophic happened with the password module and you didn't have immediate access to the physical location the box was. And, too, if you owned a program, let someone use it and they decided to "make it their own", it was nice to have a way to yoink control back and wipe their drive.
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07-15-2008, 06:45 PM
|  | sR Resident Gun Nut | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: College Station, TX
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| | | hah, don't F with a computer engineer.
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07-15-2008, 06:48 PM
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| | | I think the article said that the system is still functioning, just they don't have access to it or to change things I guess.
I don't think there should be any backdoor's in a program. Can't you just have it backed up constantly, so if you get locked out for whatever reason, you can just reinstall or what not. It may take time to do it, and you might be down for a little bit, but I think it would be a lot better than just leaving a little pooper in your program.
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07-15-2008, 06:52 PM
| | BARACKULA will suck your wallet | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Like I said, they're legit reasons for a backdoor... and when I was coding, it was pre-internet, but the reasoning is sound today. If the password module crashes, self-wipes, or whatever, and everyone is locked out, a backdoor bypasses everything and lets you right in at administrator level. Today with the internet and servers, you are at the mercy of what you're able to do remotely.
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