Terry Childs, 43, former San Francisco Department of Technology employee, remains in a jail cell, accused of locking city employees out of the San Francisco FiberWAN network.   Childs pleaded not guilty in court, and remains jailed on an unusually high $5 million bail.

After allegedly tampering with the computer network and giving himself exclusive access, no one was able to gain access without the passwords only Childs knew.  After restricting access for everyone but himself, he was also able to give himself administrative privileges to sections of the network in which he was not authorized to access.

I am not going to sit here and try to condone Childs for what he has done, because it's obviously foolish and illegal, but why was the city of San Francisco so unprepared for such an event?   

Bay Area security analyst Martin McKeay, along with multiple other analysts agree that it seems foolish for the city to allow a couple of people to control the entire network.  Along with Childs, a group of six other network administrators were said to have complete access to the S.F. FiberWAN network.    

The city also failed to keep updated backups of the network, which could have been used to help restore the network and passwords.

Childs eventually came to his senses and called Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, inviting the mayor to come and personally pick up the passwords necessary for the city to regain control of its network.  He reportedly didn't turn over the passwords earlier because "none of the persons who requested the password information were qualified to have it," Childs' attorney told the city.

The city is building its case against Childs, but may have opened itself for further punishment from people who are up to no good.  Around 150 usernames and passwords for accounts on the FiberWAN network were entered into "Exhibit A" in the court case against Childs - placing that many usernames and passwords into the public domain has given security experts yet another headache.

Prosecutors are trying to paint a picture of paranoia and instability, but Childs' friends and several former colleagues have taken to the local media to try and portray him as a self-made professional who took his job seriously.

Childs was previously arrested when he was 17 years old, convicted as an adult on charges of aggravated robbery after committing a robbery in Wichita armed with a knife.  He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Is he a talented computer engineer who simply snapped?  Is he a cyber terrorist who knowingly and willingly tried to make the city suffer?

As prosecutors continue to build their case against Childs, and he remains locked up in jail, expect the latest San Francisco drama to continue.