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802.11b Honeypots Open for Business
11thangel writes "SecurityFocus is running a story about a wireless honeypot project, being run by the SAIC. The setup consists of 5 Cisco access points in the Washington D.C. area, with two extra antennas (high gain omni's) plugged in. The network itself has a bunch of comps with various vulnerabilities, similar to a traditional honeypot. At the present, the network doesn't have a net connection, but the administrator is considering hooking it through a web proxy that would add a consent-to-monitor banner, so he can watch who's doing what. Time to find a WiFi card that can MAC-hop."
On the one hand I applaud these geeks for making the world a much better place by weeding out hackers. On the other hand, I can't help but feel nervous that the geek community is headed down a slippery slope when it uses entrapment like this. What's next? Banning free speech (from Microsoft) or the right to bear cryptography (for pedophiles)?