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Wartrapping?

Posted by michael on from the arms-race-just-getting-silly-now dept.

netphilter writes "This article on ZDNet writes: "A "honeypot" trap consisting of a Wi-Fi-equipped laptop is the latest weapon against drive-by hackers." Although I'm sure that I've heard of this somewhere before, it appears that the latest twist is that this company is looking to sell them to corporations. Hmm...I wonder what the warchalking symbol for a honeypot really would look like?"

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  1. dumb suits... by leftyfb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Van Strien plans to run several honeypots in different offices across London, and move them about within the buildings, so that if wardrivers become aware of their existence they will not know for sure which are real access points and which are honeypots

    "Yeah, maybe if we keep moving around, they'll think we're a new AP"

    I take it they've never heard of MAC Address's