Comment Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' (Score 1) 982
After he was arrested and placed in custody is when he stated that he would only give the password to the mayor, not becuase it was a rule or directive but becuase Mayor Newsom was "the only person he felt he could trust".
I haven't followed this case very closely so forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, but do you know why the mayor didn't just take the password from this guy and then hand it over to the new admins? It doesn't seem like too big a hassle for Mayor Newsom if 20 minutes on the phone would have actually helped the city avoid significant costs and problems.
Mr. Childs could then say any problems with the network from that point on were the mayor's fault for handing over the passwords to those less competent and that would have been the end of it. No huge court case needed.