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The article focuses on Terry Childs, the network administrator arrested for refusing to tell his bosses the passwords to the high-speed network of the city of San Francisco, California. Childs claims for wrongful suspension and wrongful arrest, as well as violation of his civil rights. He was alleged to changed the passwords, installed modems to gain outside access to the network and harassed an auditor. Childs faces arraignment on the charges.

The author reflects on the locked up of the backbone network and refusal of systems administrator Terry Childs to disclose passwords to San Francisco, California government officials. He asserts that the backbone network was still working, but could not be managed since Childs was in jail. He adds that Childs was the only person who understood the fiber backbone network, since he was the one who designed and maintained it. He suggests the government to find and cure the problem before it fails.

The author reflects on the business ethics of network administrator Terry Childs against the city of San Francisco, California. He recalls that Childs was arrested for felony computer tampering, and for refusing to divulge the real passwords. He suggests that when network administrator gone bad, there should be new technology and new layers of auditing to be added to increase security scrutiny.

The author reflects on the power failure at the 365 Main data center in San Francisco, California. The center operates by releasing 103,000 horsepower diesel generators when power from the utility goes out. However, when an underground transformer exploded, the power went out at the large section of downtown in San Francisco including the Financial District.

The article discusses the lawsuit filed by Bill Lockyer, former California attorney general, to some employees of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. Lockyer charged HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn, chief ethics officer Kevin Hunsaker, Ronald DeLia, Matthew Depante, and Bryan Wagner with fraudulently obtaining confidential records, identity theft, accessing computer data without authorization, and conspiracy. In the case, Wagner did the actual pretexting because he was an independent contractor in Colorado working with Depante, a manager of Florida. Wagner pleaded guilty from charges of conspiracy and fire fraud. On the other hand, charges against Dunn were dropped by the government because of her cancer.

The article focuses on the system for electronic messages sending that self-destruct, as featured by a company at a DemoFall in San Diego, California. The vendor claims that after a message is read, all the traces will be wiped from the message server and so with the sender's and receiver's personal computers. Another product is a megapixel camera phones that could snap a shot of any document or screen and upload it immediately to a service that advances the image and then sends it to anyone. These products could result to new collections of security problems in information technology.

Ponders on the intrusion of a hacker into the centralized state data center of California in 2002. Details of the incident; Views on the security procedures; Recommendations to prevent security breaches.

Looks at avoiding disasters in routine operations in information technology, with reference to an incident at the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where technicans wiped out the contents of the server's disk drive while upgrading one of the network servers. Importance of keeping routine operations low profile; Suggestions for avoiding disasters.