<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[nerd - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/</link><image><url>https://sfist.com/favicon.png</url><title>nerd - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, &amp; Sports</title><link>https://sfist.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 2.12</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:56:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sfist.com/nerd/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Problems Persist at City Hall Post-Passwordgate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite the God-like powers of Mayor Gavin Newsom's bedroom eyes, large hands, and gravelly voice that managed to woo Terry Childs to <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/07/23/mayor_newsom_get_password_cod...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/07/24/tech_promblems/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2432a044ad066cdcfa25c5</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category><category><![CDATA[IT]]></category><category><![CDATA[nerd]]></category><category><![CDATA[password]]></category><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology in San Francisco & Silicon Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[tony childs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:29:20 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry173162_thumb-thumb-640xauto-25366.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry173162_thumb-thumb-640xauto-25366.jpg" alt="Tech Problems Persist at City Hall Post-Passwordgate"><p>Despite the God-like powers of Mayor Gavin Newsom's bedroom eyes, large hands, and gravelly voice that managed to woo Terry Childs to <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/07/23/mayor_newsom_get_password_codes_fro.php">handover the passwords</a> to City Hall's system, administrators are still having trouble accessing some parts of the network, or so says Network World. Admins, it seems, are "still locked out of the city's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/voip.html">VoIP</a> system and LANs within the Sheriff's Department and the Recreation &amp; Park Department." Zoinks. </p>

<p>Also, Terry Childs, <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/07/15/technie_brings_city_hall_to_its_kne.php">who held the city's networks hostage</a>, is allegedly a wee bit bonkers. In addition to spending time in juvie for aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary charges, <em><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/072308-parts-of-san-francisco-network.html?page=2">NW</a></em> reports that a "court also ordered Childs to stay away from several of his former co-workers, including Jeana Pieralde, [a] DTIS director of security who was allegedly so afraid of Childs that she locked herself in a room in [a] data center." Oh my.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayor Newsom Scores Password Codes from Gushing Terry Childs]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a whole lot of charm and little bit of pluck, Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/07/15/technie_brings_city_hall_to_its_kne.php">much-needed passwords</a> from fo...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/07/23/mayor_newsom_get_password_codes_fro/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242a8c44ad066cdcf601ed</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category><category><![CDATA[IT]]></category><category><![CDATA[nerd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newsom]]></category><category><![CDATA[password]]></category><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology in San Francisco & Silicon Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[terry childs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:06:37 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a whole lot of charm and little bit of pluck, Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/07/15/technie_brings_city_hall_to_its_kne.php">much-needed passwords</a> from former IT nerd Terry Childs during a jailhouse visit last night. If you recall, Childs, City Hall's former network administrator , has been incarcerated since July 13 after failing to handover the correct security codes to his bosses after getting the boot. Newsom, it seems, had a secret meeting with Child last night, one so intimate that neither the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/22/BAGF11T91U.DTL&amp;tsp=1">District Attorney Kamala Harris' office nor the knew about it.</a> Childs remains in jail with several felony computer-tampering counts on his head, with a reduced bail set at 5 million.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco City Hall Technie Arrested for Withholding Password]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terry Childs, 43, City Hall's computer network administrator, was arrested and charged with four counts of computer tampering this past weekend. Why? Well, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/07/15/technie_brings_city_hall_to_its_kne/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24264244ad066cdcf3cfde</guid><category><![CDATA[SF News]]></category><category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category><category><![CDATA[IT]]></category><category><![CDATA[nerd]]></category><category><![CDATA[password]]></category><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology in San Francisco & Silicon Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[tony childs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Keeling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:34:03 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terry Childs, 43, City Hall's computer network administrator, was arrested and charged with four counts of computer tampering this past weekend. Why? Well, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/BAOS11P1M5.DTL&amp;tsp=1">according to the <em>Chronicle</em></a>, he "tampered with the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored." That is to say, he created his eyes only a master password for the entire network. And after his supervisors triedfiring him for poor job performance? Childs decided <a href="http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=8674539">not to reveal the critical password</a>. It's a case of good old fashion job insurance, folks. Anyway, Child now sits in the clink rwith a $5 million bail. Alas, an <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/01/09/gavin_newsom_we.php">IT</a> <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/05/16/we_couldnt_agre.php">geek</a> from Pittsburg has finally -- <em>finally!!</em> -- brought the City to its knees. Bravo, Childs. Bravo.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>