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Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-07-29

War drivers beware, the next wireless network you tap might be part of an elaborate sting.

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that sounds like a good idea, if the person you catch is {trying} to use the honeypot in a malicious manner, or trying to steal bandwidth. but what about the people such as myself, who don't do that sort of thing? what ifI am just curious to see what is open in my town? what if I Want to inform the owners/admins of the wireless network of their follies? am I still in the wrong then? it seems like a blatant case of shoot the messenger if I were to do something like that. I help and i get taken down...hmm...i guess i will just have to be curious, and when the blackhats come, nobody can come crying to me when they get hacked, or their bandwidth stolen.

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