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The Walnut Creek Public Library - They nearly took Pete Bennett's life after he tried to get a job at Oracle World
The Walnut Creek Public Library
Pete Bennett former programmer for Contra Costa County beaten by the county.
It's bad enough five relatives of Pete Bennett were murdered, just as bad was the murder of Officer Kenyon Youngstrom, then the suicide of City Attorney Mark Coon, man it's getting ugly around here.
Attacking the Patron at the Walnut Creek Public Library
Walnut Creek resident Pete Bennett, attacked by guard from Cypress Security (now known as Allied Security), more of the same Contra Costa County witness intimidation.
He's on the ground, his phone is broken and his laptop stored in his backpack was damaged.
Attacking the Patron at the Walnut Creek Public Library
Walnut Creek resident Pete Bennett, attacked by gaurd from Cypress Security, more of the same Contra Costa County witness intimidation.
He's heading to Kaiser, he's in pain and pretty sure then his ribs were broken.
#PCB3001_Library_Incident
The KKK Is Recruiting in San Francisco - it goes throughout the Bay Area up to the Oregon Border
Silicon Valley companies aren’t the only ones hiring in San Francisco; one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups is recruiting in the Bay Area.
Residents of San Francisco's Haight neighborhood opened their doors Tuesday morning to find white supremacist propaganda on their stoops and front gates. “JOIN THE KU KLUX KLAN,” the flyers, distributed by the Klan, read.
Full Article Here:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kkk-is-recruiting-in-san-francisco
A Kamala Slamala Moment - Helping outsourcing giants take over the technology department
The Political Conviction of Terry Childs pushed aside so the outsourcing firms could move in.
This incident occurred around the time that Mayor Newsom signed the reward for the murders of officer Lester Garnier.
SF computer technician sentenced to 4 years
By ABC7
Friday, August 6, 2010SAN FRANCISCO
Childs, 45, of Pittsburg, will likely only serve another four to six months in custody, according to one of his attorneys, Valerio Romano, who argued today for his client to receive only probation.
City officials said after Childs' arrest in July 2008 that they were worried their inability to access the FiberWAN network, which handled about 60 percent of the network traffic for city departments, would cripple the city if power were somehow shut off.
Romano today said that claim was completely overblown.
"All that really happened was, for 12 days...they didn't have access to an administrator network," Romano told Judge Teri Jackson.
"Not one email was lost, not one piece of data," he said.
Childs -- who had a history of clashing with his superiors at the Department of Technology, as well as prior felony convictions for burglary and theft in the early 1980s -- refused to hand over the passwords to the FiberWAN network at a meeting he was called to on July 9. He continued to do so even after a police inspector warned him his refusal was potentially criminal.
Romano called the meeting "an ambush."
Childs was arrested a few days later. On July 21, Mayor Gavin Newsom visited Childs in his jail cell and Childs agreed to give him the passwords.
The city regained control of the network, and no services were ever affected.
Prosecutors charged Childs with multiple counts of computer tampering-related crimes, all except one of which were later thrown out by another judge.
A jury convicted Childs on April 27 of this year of the one remaining charge, a denial-of-computer-service statute that Romano and Childs' primary attorney, Richard Shikman, argued was designed to prosecute computer hacking. The jury also found true an allegation that damage from the crime exceeded $200,000.
Romano said that while Childs' actions had been "misguided" and "a mistake," he never intended to harm the network.
"He put the security of the network above his own well-being," Romano said of Childs' decision to go to jail rather than release the passwords to Department of Technology management he didn't trust.
Romano said the case was all about "a personality conflict" between Childs and his superiors.
"The bottom line was, they couldn't get into it if they wanted to," Jackson interjected.
"There need to be procedures for giving over access to devices," said Romano.
But prosecutor Conrad Del Rosario said there had been numerous opportunities for Childs to hand over the passwords in a more secure way, if that was his concern.
Del Rosario called the notion that Childs was just acting in the best interest of the FiberWAN network "disingenuous."
"He had no problem using that as a pawn for whatever internal conflict he had with management," said Del Rosario.
Del Rosario acknowledged that the Department of Technology had its problems.
"The people are by no means saying this was management at its peak performance," he said.
Jackson noted the case, including the months-long trial, was extremely complicated. She agreed that "one can argue" that there had been "mismanagement" at the Department of Technology.
"Some say the city created Mr. Childs," she said. "They knew what they had."
However, Jackson emphasized, "A defense in a case is not to blame the victim."
"This case...is about an individual who built the system, that he felt he owned," Jackson said.
Childs had reportedly attempted to copyright the configurations to the FiberWAN, which as the builder he considered his own intellectual property.
"He felt that because of his blood, sweat and tears, this was his system," said Jackson. "He was wrong. He was wrong, and the jurors found him to be wrong."
Jackson said that because of Childs' several prior convictions, and because of violating his "position of trust" as the only one in the department with the passwords, state prison was "appropriate."
She sentenced Childs to the mid-term sentence of four years in state prison. Childs will receive credit for days served in jail and for good behavior.
A separate hearing on monetary restitution owed by Childs to the city is scheduled for Aug. 13. Prosecutors are asking for nearly $1.5 million.
District Attorney Kamala Harris attended today's sentencing hearing, and after, said Jackson "absolutely made the right decision" to sentence Childs to prison.
Harris said Childs had "engaged in a real power-play" with the city of San Francisco and that his behavior "had the potential to turn the city upside-down."
Romano disputed Harris' characterization of the danger during those 12 days.
"Although numerous city departments were attached to the FiberWAN," he said, "the worst that could have happened was a short outage in connectivity, similar to what any computer user experiences when their Internet service provider goes down."
"This case was more like a political campaign, than a case," Romano said.
Another Obama Energy Sector Death - something like the Clinton Murders
Asheley Turton
A Mother, Wife, Staffer, Lobbyist and Casualty of the Energy Sector
This incident extremely disturbing given that Ms. Turton was heading was leaving for Raleigh for the Duke/Energy merger.
Bitching to Convict Terry Childs so a DLA Piper client Accenture can take control
A Kamala Slamala Moment
The uneven handling of Terry Childs issues with his managers and vendors such as Accenture, IBM and HP plus many other wolves at the doors seeking the money keys to city contracts.
Pete Bennett has several issues with Accenture who based a series discoveries have connections to Fremont Group and attorney Richard Stanford Kopf and the matter of Bennett vs. Southern Pacific today controlled by Union Pacific or BNSF. Of course those entanglements connect to Kinder Morgan, Enron Corporation, and when looking hard enough the SEC Investigation lost in Building on 9/11.
Kamala Harris as State Attorney General has deep involvement in the PG&E investigation, explosions and wildfires. Bennett was contracted to work on the San Bruno Explosion but things didn't work out.
By now, you've probably heard that Terry Childs was sentenced to four years in prison, as a jury determined that he violated a California statute regarding denial-of-service attacks. Childs has already spent more than two years in jail at this point, so it's likely that he will serve four to eight more months before being released, but there's no guarantee of that.
No matter how you feel about this matter, it should be clear that this sentence is unduly harsh, and the amount of time Childs spent in jail before the conviction is appalling. The wheels of justice turn slowly indeed.
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There were several factors in this case that led jurors to convict Childs, but the most significant issue to me is that the San Francisco FiberWAN network that he administered suffered no outages or problems during the course of this bizarre case, with the exception of the VPN outage that occurred when the San Francisco DA's office inexplicably placed a list of active usernames and passwords into the public record, resulting in downtime to change all those passwords. Yes, Childs withheld the network's passwords in an apparent dispute with his boss, but no actual damage was done.
Worse Offenders -- Even Murderers -- Get Less Jail Time than Childs
Consider then, the case of Steven Barnes, the former IT manager for Blue
Falcon Networks in San Mateo, Calif. Barnes was convicted of sabotaging Blue Falcon's IT infrastructure in
2008, receiving a sentence of one year and one day in prison and $54,000 in
restitution to the company. While Childs' actions caused no disruptions,
Barnes deleted all company email, caused the email servers to spew out spam,
and intentionally crippled at least some servers, rendering them inoperable.
He received a much lighter sentence than Childs -- and in the same court
district.
Or consider the case of Yung-Hsun Lin, convicted in 2008 of attempting to destroy a critical database owned by his New Jersey-based employer, Medco Health Systems. Lin wrote code explicitly designed to destroy the database and set it to trigger on his birthday. It failed to run and was subsequently discovered by another admin. Lin received a 30-month sentence for his actions, as he deliberately and painstakingly attempted to sabotage the company he worked for, intentionally writing scripts to destroy valuable data.
If we drift outside of the IT realm, I could add story after story of murder, attempted murder, and rape sentences that are far less than the four years that Childs' received. A recent example might be found in Oklahoma, where a man received a one-year sentence for murder.
But what's done is done, and subsequent motions for retrial have been denied. Presumably, this case will come around again on appeal.
Poorly Managed San Francisco IT Department Gets a Free Pass
Also galling to me is the fact that the City of San Francisco has absolutely
refused to admit any responsibility for this whole mess. The city is as much
at fault in this case as Childs is -- the way that the San Francisco IT
department has been run is nothing short of abysmal, and that has been pointed
out time and again by anyone paying attention to this case. Plenty of dirty
laundry was aired out in court as well, yet through it all, the city has had a
full-court press on Childs, and being both the plaintiff and the prosecution
it spared no expense to drill Childs into the ground.
Given the nature of this case, the facts as I know them, and the rest of the data surrounding this incident, I can see how Childs might have been convicted by a largely nontechnical jury. But let's face it: if the City of San Francisco was doing anything right, this never would have happened -- and if it somehow did, the case should have been able to be resolved internally, not in a courtroom. I stand by my remarks over the past few years that if this same scenario played out in a company rather than a city IT department, we'd have never heard of it, and the most probable outcome may have been termination of employment.
Instead, Terry Childs is entering his third year in jail. It's probably safe to say that the point has been made by now: When faced with dangerously incompetent management, it's best to just look for another job.
This story, "The Terry Childs case: San Francisco is just as guilty," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia's The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com.
