The Story Behind SF’s “Rogue Network Admin”

We told you about Terry Childs and how he took San Francisco’s network hostage. InfoWorld took a look into the story behind why Childs did this and found a much different picture from the “sinister rogue network administrator” that is the popular perception.

Perhaps it comes with the pressure and responsibility of the job, or the belief that the network they’ve built is simply too complex for mere mortals to comprehend, but it’s not uncommon for highly skilled network administrators to become overprotective of their networks, or for networks of significant size to become an extension of the person who built them.

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