San Francisco’s Computers Held Hostage! (real life, not Die Hard 7)
Posted by Trent on July 24, 2008
Terry Childs was arrested Sunday, and has been in jail on a 5 million dollar bond since, because he has taken control of the City of San Francisco’s computer network. Just like a John McClain action movie, an employee (the head computer tech for the city) changed the passwords to the servers controlling 70 percent of the city’s government online traffic. He was the only man with the codes! The apocalypse is approaching!
From prison, he asked to speak with the mayor of San Francisco himself. Once the mayor arrived Childs wrote the passwords down and slid them over to the him. The mayor took them back to Cisco Systems who were employed to break the codes to no avail and peace was restored to the city. Childs claims a fellow coworker had planted a virus into the system and he was merely trying to protect it. Either way, don’t tell Bruce Willis or they’ll try and have to top a cop car exploding into a moving helicopter (yes that happened in Die Hard With a Vengeance).
