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>On Monday, Councilwoman KaShamba Miller-Anderson, the chairwoman of the board, asked Justin Williams, the interim information technology manager, for something
by blotter_paper 7y ago
>On Monday, Councilwoman KaShamba Miller-Anderson, the chairwoman of the board, asked Justin Williams, the interim information technology manager, for something seemingly simple. Could the elected officials’ new email addresses be posted online for the public to get in touch with them?
>Underscoring the enormity of the city’s troubles, Mr. Williams explained that the webmaster hoped to get to that soon.
>“He’s been working very feverishly to get that done,” Mr. Williams said.
...the webmaster is working feverishly to post a static piece of text to a website? I guess it really is hard to fire government workers.
- crummy 7y agoThat's easy to say, but if the deployment server is down you might not be able to do it easily, and if you try to do it manually you need credentials which were stored on in a text file on another server that's down... etc.
- scarejunba 7y agoIt's the government. He probably needs to find long lost keys to SSH in, file four forms (each in triplicate), and receive approval from each person to get it out.
- jlgaddis 7y agoIt's municipal government. There almost certainly were no SSH keys. The problem is that the credentials that the webmaster needs likely only exist in an Excel spreadsheet that was saved on the desktop of the "Administrator" user account on one of the machines that got hit.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoMost City websites are going to be some sort of CMS and it might not be as simple as putting a text file in the public folder and linking to it. Add to that all sorts of other things that might be getting in the way and you can have someone working feverishly to get it done.
- dillonmckay 7y agoHe is the interim guy. I wanna know what happened to the DNS records.