High Scores

ive had uplink (the full version) for 4 days now, and my friend just got it 2 days ago. I am having a lot of fun playing, but when i get caught (which used to be VERY often) it tells me my score. i guessed that this was a average of many things that you do during the game. Then i had an idea: if i went and stole a few million credits, and (obviosly) got caught, would my score be higher? and the answer was yes, very much so (about 20 times higher than my previos high score). If this is so, what is the point of high scores? could you put something in the game that subtracted money you stole if that was what you were caught doing?