Re: SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On Nov 29, 2007 8:01 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Michael Keehn, 61, former electrical supervisor at the Tehama Colusa Canal
> Authority (TCAA) in Willows, Calif., faces 10 years in prison on charges
> that he "intentionally caused damage without authorization to a protected
> computer," according to Keehn's Nov. 15 indictment. He did this by
> installing unauthorized software on the TCAA's Supervisory Control and Data
> Acquisition (SCADA) system, the indictment states.

I'm confused. Was this an actual intrusion - from a FORMER employee or
was it an employee simply installing unapproved software (like
openoffice instead of ms office)?
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