[607] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Former Hacker's Intro
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Cohen)
Tue Feb 20 10:48:59 1996
From: fc@all.net (Fred Cohen)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:05:42 -0500 (EST)
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Feb 13, 96 09:38:26 am
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So to summarize the majority view of the contributors to the IDS list,
they believe that there is no justification for not hiring a former
computer criminal as a computer security expert = or in other words that
people with a track record of honesty should not be given priority over
people with a track record of dishonesty when hiring for jobs in
computer security.
In my opinion, this demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding
about the goal of computer security, and it further rewards people
who are dishonest, which ultimately punishes honesty. This is the
exact opposite of what we should be doing.
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