Aside from William's bad faith $200,000 shenanigans. It's the college's account and regardless of how and why Williams was the sole adminstrator, holding it hos

Aside from William's bad faith $200,000 shenanigans. It's the college's account and regardless of how and why Williams was the sole adminstrator, holding it hostage when he should have turned it over originally is a problem. So for me it does seem clear cut. Additionally seeing as he was the administrator wouldn't that be part of HIS job to protect the school from those sorts outcomes like being hit by a bus? I mean you say "the school is guilty" but there is a certain expectation that IT will follow best practices. And if they don't? You would need outside auditing to uncover that. And depending on the legal requirements that may be a tough pill to swallow budget-wise, especially if you haven't been burnt yet. It seems like Williams was pissed at the circumstances and thought this would be a good idea. And fortunately his claims can be tested. Google ought to be able to determine when the passwords were changed. It should be simple analysis to determine if and when the laptop was formatted (before or after Williams returned it) and go from there. Just too much of Williams claims are bogus. Of course an Indiana based company is going to file in Indiana... and the claim that they removed his access to the system, so how could he change the Google account password that he was the sole admin on? That's going to hold up for about six seconds in court... And trying to charge $200,000 to recover an account he was still the owner of and not being surprised when that blew up in his face. It's just incompetent and while William's may not be the only incompetent in the mix, it's not a license to behave as he has, in my opinion.