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Original message:48 days 15 hours 35 minutes ago

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Member: dcunning30

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This is funny....and not funny at the same time!

So, in San Francisco, a network administrator and his boss got into a dispute. The NetAdmin got pissed off and hacked the city's complete network. Locked it down and only he has the adminstrator password to it's servers. SF police threw him in jail, but he won't give up the password. SF is hosed, they would have to install a duplicate network, and load it's servers from backups. This could take a month, and if SF is so sloppy to get into this perdicament, who would venture to guess their backups might be carelessly made as well?

....and oh yea, the guy still won't give up the password!

even though this is serious for SF, you gotta admit, this is funny!

Source:http://abcnews.go.com

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Reply:48 days 15 hours 30 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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Don't mess with the guy who's got you by the balls...

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Reply:48 days 15 hours 21 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30

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Hey wait a minute. The article said it would take a month. I work in IT, ain't no way they could get a duplicate network up and running from scratch in one month.

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Reply:48 days 15 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus

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Something tells me this guy will end up working for the CIA or something.

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Reply:48 days 13 hours 49 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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Better yet, don't let men handle your balls!

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Reply:48 days 13 hours 42 minutes ago
Member: The Rocker

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Most city offices run a mixture of unix and windows, it is possible to hack the SID (security identifier) on a windows server using utilities available on the net and create a new admin password, if it's UNIX Solaris, you can boot the server from the network in single usermode mount the hard disk and edit the shadow file, this will give you a blank password and you can start again with what ever one you like, you can also boot cdrom -s and do the same thing. I work in an investment bank for a major UNIX vendor, so security is as tight as anything you will ever encounter, so the scenario is an impossibility, and with the rise of high availability like clustering customers can afford to shut one server down and continue working on the good side. so you can do stuff without affecting availability.

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Reply:47 days 22 hours 41 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30

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I'm not a unix admin so I don't know that level of detail of unix servers. But I would imagine your suggestion could resolved this problem in a matter of days. I wonder what it is that made the SF authorities mention a month's time? But anyway, my company have migrated servers, installed mirrored networking for disaster recovery Witnessing these activities, I can only say it is NOT trivial ansd even with the best planning and posessing all the passwords, there are always things that happen to slow the process down. Building up a new network from scratch will take longer than a month, that's for sure.

To me, it's seems SF don't have a disaster recovery plan in place, which is a huge no-no. Actually, it's down right wreckless. Amazing! And like your company, it is totally impossible for 1 person to wreck that much havoc on our systems, no matter how motivated he or she may be.

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Reply:48 days 12 hours 15 minutes ago
Member: Danno

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Umm, what he said ^^^

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Reply:48 days 12 hours 12 minutes ago
Member: Danno

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That's not as bad as the guy in Litchenberg (or one of those countries around Sweden) that works for a bank. The bank has numerous accounts for rich ass US mofo's who shelter their money there. Well this guy got pissed at his boss or some such and leaked the names of all the US customers. Tell me the poop isn't gonna his the paddle wheel now...

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Reply:47 days 18 hours 24 minutes ago
Member: NoKindOfAMankind

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you fukin right... that is funny... and very akward too at some point...

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