"SAN FRANCISCO -- Terry Childs envisioned the ultimate revenge on his
bosses, prosecutors say - the meltdown of the city's computer network at
the flick of a switch. And it would come not directly at the hands of
Childs, but during routine system maintenance at the building that
houses the city's Technology Department.
The alleged plot was discovered before the computer network that handles
law enforcement documents, payroll records, officials' e-mail and other
sensitive city records was shut down for scheduled maintenance last
Saturday, an action that would have vaporized numerous files because of
a booby-trap Childs had installed, prosecutors said in court documents
filed Wednesday.
Childs, 43, has been jailed since July 13 on four felony counts of
computer tampering after he allegedly locked his bosses at the
Technology Department out of the system and refused to hand over the
password he had created. In arguing against a defense request to lower
his $5 million bail, prosecutors said Childs had set up more than 1,000
computer modems in locked cabinets and other hiding places, including at
least one in a room at the Hall of Justice that even police didn't know
existed, to tinker with the system without his bosses knowing it.
Childs didn't hand over the access codes to the computer system until a
jailhouse meeting with Mayor Gavin Newsom on Monday - two days after the
network was to have been taken down for the routine maintenance.
'He had a malicious intent to destroy the entire network,' prosecutor
Conrad del Rosario said.
Childs' lawyer, Erin Crane, called the allegation 'spurious' and said
Childs is the victim of bosses who resent his expertise.
'When they couldn't get rid of him,' they created a false image of a
'rogue employee' out to terrorize the city, Crane said.
After a Superior Court hearing Wednesday, Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe
refused to lower bail. Childs remains in the city jail pending a hearing
Sept. 24..."
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