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List:       incidents
Subject:    Re: honeypots
From:       Vern Paxson <vern () EE ! LBL ! GOV>
Date:       1999-07-15 12:31:12
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> I've never used DTK either, but I was planning on having a fake passwd
> file to pass out as part of a 'honeypot' system on my machine.  I don't
> believe I understand what you mean about there being legal and moral
> consequences, as I'm not sure how that giving them a false /etc/passwd in
> response to an attempted break-in is considered entrapment.

We once dished out a fake /etc/passwd and later logged attempts to the
four accounts in it: "you", "are", "a", "luser" :-).

		Vern

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