The problems with the city's computer system that was used by several local agencies in San Francisco has come to a stop, as the IT specialist that hijacked it gave the codes that unlocked the system to Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Terry Childs created a system that would have caused all the computers in the city network to loose all of their data in case of a shutdown such as a maintenance one. Following his actions, Terry Childs had been arrested on four counts of felony on July 13.

It seems that in order to do this, Mr. Childs had installed more than 1000 modems in different secret locations, including one secret room in the at the Hall of Justice that even the police didn't know about.

People became suspicious as the engineer displayed a strange behavior during the last months. Everything climaxed with Terry Childs frightening the city's new chief of network security, Jeana Pieralde, by photographing her with his cell phone as she was running through his papers during an audit at the place where he worked.

Despite the efforts of several security experts to crack the codes and unlock the city network, nobody could get around the passwords that Mr. Childs created. It was only when the engineer decided to hand them over to the authorities that they were able to do anything about the situation. However, Mr. Childs refused to talk to anybody but Mayor Newsom, who became the hero of the day as he walked away with the codes.