Public CIO - December 2008/January 2009 - (Page 13) H I LT O N C O L L I N S | S TA F F W R I T E R | P H O T O S B Y G L E N N T R I E S T With fewer IT workers doing more work, CIOs are seeing rising stress levels in the workplace. WHEN TERRY CHILDS, a network engineer for the city and county of San Francisco, locked co-workers out of the city’s computer network in July 2008 and refused to hand over access codes — even to the police — it took a jail-side visit from Mayor Gavin Newsom before the rogue IT worker surrendered the password. Childs’ actions caused a sensation in the IT community. In particular, the blogosphere lit up with comments on the ramifications of San Francisco’s network administrator-turned-malcontent hacker. Seattle Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier blogged that Childs “apparently had a disdain for other administrators, staff and management in the [IT] department.” InfoWorld’s Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia blogged that Childs was “a disgruntled network admin.” But some comments revealed that Childs had supporters. “I sympathize with Mr. Childs’ would-be goal of protecting the network,” wrote one person in response to a July 28, 2008, blog post by Eric Knorr, another InfoWorld editor. “I got to tell you I don’t think Terry meant to do anything Tense malicious at all,” wrote another. And still another stated that San Francisco was “making a scapegoat out of Terry Childs” because the city “dropped the ball” by not securing the passwords sooner rather than later. www.public-cio.com [13] http://www.public-cio.com
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