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802.11b Honeypots Open for Business

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-secure dept.

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."

5 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. frost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    pist. AC's rule.

  2. bored by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    firsties

  3. KO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MAC change is right. Fuck DC, my free wireless is all about Kent, Ohio, where 'dem fine bitches brew da magic hummers, WHOOWEE!


  4. *sigh* by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 1, Troll

    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)?

  5. Re:Warchalk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *cough*fag*cough*