[579] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Response to the computer criminal's introduction (FLAME WARNING)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ashes)
Tue Feb 13 11:05:22 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 06:58:29 -0500
To: ids@uow.edu.au
From: ashes@magi.com (Ashes)
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
>You are a criminal (or ex-criminal) then.
That's right: he was a criminal, and he never claimed he wasn't.
He has (I assume) served his time, and so paid his debt to society.
>It is my opinion that anybody who would hire a computer criminal to work
>on computer security deserves to lose all of their information assets -
>and probably will. It's about as smart as hiring a convicted child sex
>offender to run a daycare center.
There's no comparing someone who rapes little children to somebody
who hacks... I'm not saying the latter isn't illegal, just much less worse.
I wouldn't be surprised if jail reforms a hacker. It can't be too much fun
being in jail, and having experienced it, I'm sure alot of hackers wouldn't
want to go back.
>Please let us know the name of the company when you start it so we can
>tell all of our clients to avoid it.
That's not even worth a comment... If you don't like him, fine, but
don't try and ruin his life because of something which has already paid for.
(I don't figure you meant that seriously, but still...)
