[599] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Response to the computer criminal's introduction (FLAME WARNING)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ira S. Winkler)
Wed Feb 14 22:17:37 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 19:40:16 EST
From: winkler@c3i.saic.com (Ira S. Winkler)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
IMHO: Anyone that commits a crime, such as hacking, speeding, rape, etc.
must be willing to accept the fact that there are repercussions to criminal
actions. In the case of speeding, you might lose your insurance, your license,
or at least have your rates go up. Yes, I speed and I know that I will
suffer if I get caught. Hackers tend not to consider the consequences, which
include ostrization by the computing community. (I know I spelled it wrong.)
[ostracization - RuF]
Whether people consider it right or wrong, that is the long term consequence
of hacking. Additionally, corporate share holders could hold a company liable
if a "reformed" hacker turned out to be not so reformed.
As for someone saying that they should be hired for security work because they
demonstrated their skill by acquiring a criminal record as opposed to a
degree, that is ludicrous. I know plenty of people without criminal records
that have the same skills, and better. Depending upon the responses to these
comments, I will provide more input later.
Ira
