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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? 2003-04-18
Bingo
Completely stupid!!!!!

When a hackern penetrate a network, he risks prison. The purpose of a honeypot is to try to protect an organisation's network.

Soon, configure a firewall is going to be illegal. Indeed, a firewall intercepts communications between to networks and filters packets!!!

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