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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
Anonymous
'The very purpose of your honeypot is to be attacked... so it's a little odd to say we're doing our monitoring of this computer to prevent it from being attacked.'

Completely wrong. Just another lawyer crap.

The honey pot is a system designed to detect an illegal activities on your systems....

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