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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison?
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-04-16

SAN FRANCISCO--Using a honeypot to detect and surveil computer intruders might put you on the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by the next hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney warned Wednesday.

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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-17
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-18
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-18
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-21
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? yeah right. 2003-04-18
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But does it matter? 2003-04-18
batz (1 replies)
Packet sniffing your own network puts you in jeopardy as well. 2003-04-18
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-18
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Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? 2003-04-22
Anonymous
"Salgado favors configurations where a hacker is invisibly rerouted to a honeypot after beginning an attack on a production machine."

that, Mr. Salgado, is not a honeypot. It's a firewall or IDS, based on known signatures and, therefore, unable to protect against latest and greatest at hacker's disposal.

Honeypots can emulate a real production server, good ones can "surround" this server and turn it into a "black hole," but they can't BE the actual production server. One of the most important features of honeypots is that all traffic is intruder-based.

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