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Fun Things To Do With Your Honeypot System
An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running an interesting article on honeypots and their uses. From the article: 'Most papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves... Honeypots can be used to ensnare and beguile potential hackers; entice them to give you more research information, and actively defend your production network."" From the article: "Once an attacker has taken all the trouble to set up shop on your honeypot, he'll probably want to see what else there is to play with. If your honeypot is like most traditional honeypots, there's not much for an attacker to do once he gets in. What you really want if for the attacker to transfer down all the other toys in his arsenal so you can have a copy as well. Giving an attacker additional targets with various operating systems and services can help him decide to give you his toys. The targets can be real, but you'll get almost as much mileage if they're simulated. A good place to start is to put a phantom private network up hung off the back of the honeypot."
Why don't you just secure your network and you don't have to worry about it
Oh, is that all? Good to see you've boiled network security down to a single step. I'd say write a book, but it would only have one page so that's probably a waste of your time.
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Host NASA servers? :)
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Most people use their honey pots for surfing the web, checking email and sometimes playing games.
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Sorry to do this, but I think that it is somewhat careless to assume that all new parents that might be reading Slashdot are in fact aware of the unique danger that honey presents to infants. Just in case someone comes across this and isn't aware, please look into the concerns related to infant botulism before getting the bright idea to feed your newborn some honey. Now go ahead and make the jokes - I just think that this needed to be said.
Do you have so much time on your hands that you find it amusing to prattle on about common spelling errors? Or does it some how make you feel superior to spot a misused "an" and point it out to the whole world as is "see, this person is an idiot, whereas I am a superior human!". Good lord, get a life.
Errors:
1. "Somehow" is one word.
2. as is "see, this person is an idiot As is?
3. a superior human!". With the type of English that one uses in the U.S., sentence-ending punctuation is usually contained within the quotation marks and one doesn't usually use two of them in one sentence.
4. Good lord Generally, "Lord"--when used in this context--is capitalized.
Damn, it's great to have so much time on my hands so I can feel so superior!
Just fill the honeypot with pr0n and there will be plenty for the hacker to play with.
The difference is that here he's just karma whoring whereas on Digg they would genuinely need such an explanation.
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That reminds me of a joke I heard years ago:
A new Harvard freshman was lost and looking for the library. He approached what obviously was an upperclassman, and asked "Excuse me, could you please tell me where the library is at?" The upperclassman looked down his nose at the freshman, and replied, "My good sir, here at Harvard we do *not* end our sentences with a preposition." The freshman is a bit taken aback, and rephrases his question: "Okay, could you please tell me where the library is at, asshole?"
There aren't too many grammar jokes out there, so I guess you have to take them as you can get them.
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A visiting what? C'mon - I mean seriously.....this *is* slashdot!