Awwwwwwwwwwe Ciscoooooo!!!!!

Ahhhhhhh Ponchoooooo!!!!!

ArrogantAss
Dallas,Tx

kenneth dees, dallas, usa

Waterboarding works.

Wallace Edward Brand, Alexandria, VA, US

Its amazing how everyone feels qualified to comment on something that they apparently know oh so very little about. Clearly half the commenters can't tell the difference between a router or a hard drive.
But thank you all for your unintentionally silly comments though. Its been all very funny.

Hawq, Columbus,

The DA ought to be drafting a deal to exchange his freedom for the codes. But instead they will spend tax dollars and more tax dollars over thier ego issues. The USA loves prisons. Make a deal and settle this thing. Then make sure two admins have the codes from now on. It works for nukes.

Lavinski, Salt Lake City, USA

The USA is one place I would never commit a crime, not that I would anyway, all very dodgy.
Give the guy a slapped wrist like they would in the UK, and not put all your eggs in one basket.

Chris, Earth,

Have they tried rebooting? Sometimes, you know, the password is just the person's name or date of birth! Try loading new sound drivers. Or maybe reinstalling Windows?

If this fails, contact your local dealer.

iain, bedford, uk

If Cisco are involved it is the network not the data that is compromised. There are back doors to Cisco equipment if you have physical access to the devices - even if the backdoor has been disabled by Childs it is an inconvenience rather than catastrophe.

Stuart, London,

Imagine what could be done if some disgruntled whitehall employee decides to take sole control of the DNA database that there creating.

will, grimsby, uk

If there's nothing to worry about, why is it taking so long to fix and as importantly. why is his bail $ 5,000,000. Isn't he innocent?

Ben, Las Vegas,

Organizations over the past decades have been concentrating access privileges to 'administrators', on the basis of so-called compliance blah blah blah. Nobody monitors the administrators. Well, now the decision makers can eat their air-headed strategy.

DS, Richmond Hill, Canada

"Moral - don't discipline the geek.

Ian Griffiths, Merseyside, UK"

Yeah, it's best to shoot them.

Ed, Luton, UK

The geek will inherit the earth.

John Peters, Swansea,

Zeke: Only a small minority of hackers perform "illegal" acts. Most work as consultants legitimately.

I swear the ignorance surrounding computers is astounding. And I sure don't want to hear a politician talking about power going to someone's head.

Dave, KC,

I've got a Win98 startup disc if you want it lol!

Phill, The Wirral, England

Moral - don't discipline the geek.

Ian Griffiths, Merseyside, UK

He locked everyone out of the “maintenance” account to control the routers in protest of has managers actions. No data is lost and no data is inaccessible to users - so i say GO TERRY! Take a stand for all the IT personnel being abused by management in this world – I'm with ya!

Bill, Los Angels, CA, USA

An engineer (erm hacker) with physical access to a computer can get hold of the contents on the computer's disk drive by mounting it on a separate OS and change the root/admin password or restore the password database from the system's backups. For sys admins worth their salt it is not that hard.

Stuart, Glasgow,

Do not be ignorant. Their is no back doors even for the Vendors. Cisco is one of the largest security/router manufacturers in the world. If they had back doors then they would not be very secure would they?

-Cisco Certified Security Professional

Brandon, Cincinnati, US

Just keep him in prison until he gives up the codes. If he doesn't comply, he stays in for life. Fine him every penny it costs to put right.

Alastair, Alicante, Spain

Brilliant, at las a citizen bites back, the world would be a better place if more of us stood up to the ego-maniacs

Jim Jamieson, Livingston, Scotland

Shouldn't they just hire an actual (though illegal) hacker to take care of this?

Zeke, Albuquerque, USA

The real cause of this problem is the present management trend towards "reducto ad absurdam" when it comes to staffing levels - hence one man ends up with all the knowledge. I predict lots of threats followed by lots of retreats later on when truth emerges.

Martin Wright, Birmingham, England

Backups?

Jeremy Poynton, Frome, United Kingdom

Eggs, baskets!

Pete, St Albans, England

Hmmm... and our government wants to put all our personal details in a single database.

I don't know about you, but that idea doesn't give me any warm or comfortable feelings!

Max, London,

You would think that with all the "Smart" people in the Bay area, they could figure a way to either hack the passwords or to create new root accounts. I'm sure Cisco and the other vendors should have back doors. This should be a forgone conclusion

Paul Bahre, Granby, CT, USA