Snydeq writes "The office of San Francisco locality patch Kamala Harris has made public close to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's VPN. The passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court paper arguing against a reduction in $5 million bail in the case against Terry Childs. Though they placed the passwords in the public record, city prosecutors do seem to think that they are sensitive. InfoWorld's Paul Venezia, who has been next the case closely, provides further disruption of the specialized details in the city's case. 'By themselves, would not be enough to allow anyone to access the network via VPN,' Venezia writes, 'but the fact that the city entered them into deposition is quite shocking. At the very least, they'll have to shut down their VPN access for awhile until they've changed them all and modified the configurations of some large number of VPN clients.'"

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