Does this bring to mind any IT professionals you know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE

Apparently SF tech engineer Terry Childs can't find the password to open his jail cell door. But he definitely figured out the key to chilling hearts.

Childs is accused of hijacking the city computer system by creating a password giving him the only access to officials' email and law enforcement documents, among other sensitive digital info. He's pled not guilty and talks may or may not be underway to get him to give up the password.

Commenters on our ace reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken's original story about this last week were mostly interested either in the technology of the case or in tormenting Childs into giving it up (waterboard him, several people suggested).

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