Wartrapping?

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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Honeypot Symbol

[VVrath]

I'm guessing the submitter wasn't thinking of Winnie the Pooh...

Liam

Re:Honeypot Symbol

[netphilter]

If you read the article you see that that's the suggestion. I'm thinking more along the lines of a bee smoking a joint..."honey" "pot".

Re:Honeypot Symbol

[chegosaurus]

then may I suggest p00h as a honeypot symbol?

Re:Honeypot Symbol

[henrikg]

p00h: imagine a beowulf cluster of these... drool.

0wl: Bah, 640 honeypots should be enough for anybody.

Re:Honeypot Symbol

[AKnightCowboy]

When does the copyright run out on him?
Isn't that a Disney character? If so, probably never. If you have enough money you can buy a never-expiring copyright from your local congressman. :-)

It might look something like this

[DaedalusLogic]

)( :-(

or

)NO!(

Or failing that a picture of a fat bear with handcuffs being lead away by the brain police. Damn you Pooh bear...

Re:It might look something like this

[Storm Damage]

d'Oh!

I mean like this.

blargle...now it's not even funny anymore.

Honeywagon

[sfled]

What they use to put all the crap in...

A use for the TIMBOT!!!!!!!

[jcrb]

Send it into the building to disable the honeypot laptop.... It can use its onboard signal strength meter to search for it and then with some onboard weapons in the Mark II version (remember its a DARPA project....) BOOM!! no more honeypot...

I don't

[Apreche]

think that there's a warchalking symbol for a honeypot. I think that writing SANDERS in really poor backwards handwriting is good enough. /me hopes people aren't lame, and they get the joke

War Chalking Symbol

[TheOneEyedMan]

A honey pot is slang for a vagina as well as a computer used to trap misfits. I think and femal genetalia related symbol would do nicely.

honeypot symbol...

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe instead of a symbol we could put a nest of killer bees near the point and then that would be the form of security too. :-)

-(|||) - is that a honey pot symbol?

Wart Rapping?

[BoBaBrain]

Darn those gansta boyz. Is nothing too taboo for their cutting edge lyrics?

Re: Heard of it before...

[pwagland]

Although I'm sure that I've heard of this somewhere before,

Maybe it was here....

XP to the rescue

[twitter]

Ultra secure WinXP will be happy to hand out all your base so you can be blacklisted. Yeah:

Valuable WinUSER

1069 Penn Ave, Washington DC.

(100) 555-1069

192.168.1.1

Press 1 to recieve list of all songs and movies ever watched on this PC.

Press 2 to recieve social security number

Press 3 to recieve mother's maiden name

Press 4 to be authenticated as vendor with power of attorney for Valuable WinUSER.

Press 5 to spam.

Oh wait, 192.168.1.1 is a local IP. Bill, you need to store medical records so we can cross reference the social security number with the real ISP, thanks.

Re:Fill in the blanks:

[sql*kitten]

1. Buy the honeypot from this Van Strien fellow, packaged as "a security tool for corporate Wi-Fi users" with "a beautiful user interface". Estimated cost: _____
2. Maintain it. Estimated cost: ______ per month.
3. Keep someone on the payroll to watch for suspicious activity. Estimated cost: _____ per month.
4. When suspicious activity is found.... um... what exactly do you do then?

You forgot:

5. Profit!

Get similar fake wireless AP software right now

[wherley]

Mentioned one month ago here on slashdot this fakeAP software sends out lots of 802.11b beacon message with different SSIDs. Hide in the noise for the good it will do you.

kind of pointless

[ch-chuck]

unless the honeypot has rooftop rf direction finding and megawatt laser blaster.

BOFH: Hey, tripwire shows we got a fly in the honeypot!
PFY: (looking out window with binos) Really? It could be that guy at the sidewalk cafe with the notebook out.
BOFH: Heheh, Mr. warwhiz left port 139 open and admin share on! Now where did you put smbclient?
PFY: In daisy/pub. Go for it and I'll let you know of any change in facial expression.

Re:Wardriving is not illegal

[nochops]

Technically, this is not the future. This is the present.

Use the universal geek trap symbol:

[dr_dank]

Admiral Ackbar.

'nuff said.

Re:802.11 can be secure, if the admins know how to

[brer_rabbit]

I recently worked at a large government organization (in Canada if it matters)

well duh, it matters! Canada only has, like, three secrets. And two of them have to do with maple syrup. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.

Re:Huh?

[MooseGuy529]

Yes, I know...

How about simply trusting servers to keep their data/services protected instead of the network? So let people use your network (maybe a bandwidth cap?) so you don't piss off people (if it's there, ya might as well use it, and if someone's not gonna slow it down for everyone else, ya might as well let them), and then make employees/legit. users give a password

Myself, I have never understood the people who complain that you don't have a right to use someone's network if they leave it wide open. Given the nature of wireless networks, it's like leaving an ethernet plug sitting on the outside of the building and expecting people not to plug into it and use it. Companies should, instead of going for a hard outside and soft, hackable inside (or hard inside, because people will still hack it), go for a soft outside and concentrate on hardening the inside.

But I think a honeypot is really pushing it--I would consider that rude. It's one thing to deny users access to a network that they don't own, but to set up traps trying to annoy them? Besides, someone will use Radio Direction Finding and track down the laptop, and turn it off/break it/steal it.

Just my two cents...