–I’ll immediately compose or hire a team to crack the password. Then I’ll run an employee check-up, making sure that my employees will not repeat what just happened, and the department will prevent having again employees like Childs.

on the next time…

–A comprehensive network security policy, having multiple trustworthy supervisors who will have the high level passwords.

OK, I get that he’s defending his client and trying to throw out some reasonable doubt or whatever about Childs’ intentions, but: Seriously? Does Jacobs really think Childs is the victim of some sort of shadowy conspiracy? That people wouldn’t be worried about one man playing keepaway with payroll and other records?

Did I just fall into a publicity stunt for the upcoming The X-Files” movie?

And what’s a guy who made $126,735 + $22,534 a year doing with a public defender?

For that matter: Backups ? Break-glass-in-case-of-emergency root-level passwords sealed in envelopes in a safe ? And more importantly, limit the abilities and access of any one individual. Other versions of this story say that Childs was MONITORING emails and memos about him and a personnel action.

Whoever was managing this guy also needs to be let go, with predjudice: one should NEVER allow this many basic security rules to be broken, no matter how talented the admin is. . .