[613] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: FLAME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter da Silva)
Tue Feb 20 13:37:53 1996
From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:00:02 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199602081412.QAA19837@central.ntua.gr> from "giorgos adamopoulos"
at Feb 8, 96 04:12:12 pm
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Both these people are jumping to conclusions:
> > You are a criminal (or ex-criminal) then.
> And he got prosecuted and payed, so he is cleared; period.
I don't understand this logic. Just because someone has "paid their debt to
society" in jail, how does that "clear" them in any sense? There's no
evidence jail automatically reforms people... why else would there be
repeat offenders? they're the same people coming out as they were going
in. You have to deal with individuals as individuals, not simply assume
either that they're now "cleared" by their time on jail, or that they're
hardened criminals because they have a record. A record is a warning sign,
alerting you that you need to do a bit more research. You can't just look
at it and assume "oh, they made a mistake in their youth" or "they're
obviously part of the Underworld".
