Terry Childs Ripple Effect Delays ShotSpotter

San Francisco's latest crime-fighting technique, ShotSpotter, a listening/recording device that can pinpoint the locations of discharged gunfire in San Francisco's most at-risk neighborhoods, has seen its Mission district unveiling temporarily halted. According to the Ex, Terry Childs, the IT nerd who almost took down San Francisco via a lockout, caused the delay. It seems the "communications system on which [ShotSpotter] relies has yet to be restored," or whatever. Anyway, the ShotSpotter's third installation is TBA. (Examiner)

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Ah, so now they're trumping up additional costs that he's supposedly responsible for. Way to prepare for the trial, City Hall!

"It's been business as usual. We have been operating just like we would on any given day with no down time," says Vinson. -- July 15, 2008
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6265294

"We were able to regain complete control of the network Tuesday," said Ron Vinson, the deputy director of the city's Department of Technology Information Services. -- July 22, 2008
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/san-francisco-a.html

"Right now our system is up and running and we haven't had any problems so far," said Ron Vinson, chief administrative officer for the Department of Technology. -- July 15, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/BAOS11P1M5.DTL

"He had the trump card and he could have brought everything down if he wanted to," said Ron Vinson, deputy director of the city's Department of Technology Information Services, who said the city's network has continued functioning without a hitch. -- July 15, 2008
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/sf-city-charged.html

But the official, Department of Technology deputy chief Ron Vinson, also insisted that "we have control over our FiberWAN network. ... We continue to work with our forensics team that we brought on to regain access, but we have maintained operability. We have not seen any downtime." -- July 18, 2008
http://www.crn.com/security/209101383

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