"Childs' attorney has asked the judge to reduce
Childs $5 million bail bond, describing her client
as a man who felt himself surrounded by incompetents
and supervised by a manager who he felt was
undermining his work.
"None of the persons who requested the password
information from Mr. Childs ... were qualified to
have it," she said in a court filing.
Childs intends to disprove the charges against him
but also "expose the utter mismanagement,
negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left
unchecked, will in fact place the City of San
Francisco in danger," his motion reads."
However, there appears to be a darker side to this
story, as revealed by the San Francisco police
department:
"According to an affidavit from James Ramsey, an
inspector with the San Francisco Police Department,
he and other investigators discovered dial-up and
DSL (digital subscriber line) modems that would
allow an unauthorized connection to the FiberWAN.
He
also found that Childs had configured several of the
Cisco devices with a command that would erase
critical configuration data in the event that anyone
tried to restore administrative access to the
devices, something Ramsey saw as dangerous because
no backup configuration files could be found. "
While
details are forthcoming, it appears that Mr. Child's
refusal to share access may have been to prevent
investigators from discovering something unsavory.
