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Story: San Francisco mayor breaks password deadlock

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Password Deadlock

I can understand the mans personal reasons for doing this, but I hope that the authorities will take heed of this warning, look how easy it is to paralyse the City's network, and this was a man who worked for them, how easy would it be for someone else, with maybe terrorist intentions, to take control of the system. The authorities nowadays do not seem to keep a tight reign on their systems, hardly ever updated with security program because of the spiraling costs and the need to save money, this should be top of the list, not swept aside with a "It can't happen to us" attitude.

I hope that other departments throughout not just the US, but all countries, that are using computer systems, to see how good your system is to keep things running smoothly, and the security is top of their priorities list, but I suppose this warning will go unheeded as usual, let's bury our heads in the sand.....

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