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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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They touched on my thought in the article of me saying that the Hacker is communicating with the honeypot and the honeypot is just relaying what the hacker told it (through commands) to me. This also works if the Hacker uses the honeypot to connect to other computers, the honeypot is just telling m...

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