access to the system. In such a case, they should have known within 24 hours that he had done something. If, on the other hand, he was a one man show, then I think that they are screwed until he gives up his password...which he will. Mark my word.

"Childs has worked for the city for about five years. One official with knowledge of the case said he had been disciplined on the job in recent months for poor performance and that his supervisors had tried to fire him."

How the hell do you "Try to fire" someone.. either you do it or you don't.

(And please.. no Yoda BS. If you go back and look at when Yoda was first introduced as a character he didn't do that cutesy backwardsto another job, but I still had contact with a lot of ex-coworkers. Allegedly a middle management type was sacked, and a few days afterwards he came in again (no idea how he got past various access controls) to (literally) make a stink: he had several shopping bags containing excrement (human, apparently, though it probably was not all his own), which he managed to smear across his own as well as his ex-boss' desk and office wall before being apprehended. Now the office building was one of these modern new agey glass and concrete monstrosities and consisted of 4 floors of open plan desks, with a large opening down the center the same shape and size as the huge lobby and indoor garden on the ground floor -