Snydeq writes "A source with direct wisdom of San Francisco's IT root has tipped off Paul Venezia to the real story behind Terry Childs' lockout of San Francisco's network, in the event a circumstantial account of the city's FiberWAN, interdepartmental politics, and Terry Childs himself. Childs pleaded not guilty to charges of tampering yesterday and is being held on $5 million bail. proper to regulation to the source, Childs' purview was limited to the city's FiberWAN — a network he himself built and, believing no one competent enough to touch the network but himself, guarded religiously, sharing details with no one, including routing cast and log-in information. Childs was so concerned about the network's force that he refused even to write router and switch configurations to flash. But what may prove serious for the prosecution in its case against Childs is that his third edition by the editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 access to the network was widely known and accepted among managers and the city's other network engineers. Venezia, who has been askance of the sanctioned story from the start, suspects that the Childs case may be that 'of an overprotective admin who believed he was protecting the network — and by extension, the city — from other administrators whom he studious inferior, and perhaps even dangerous.' Further meaning is that fact that the network, from what Venezia understands, has been running smoothly since Childs' arrest."

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