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I just wanted to bring up a point that you might want to be careful about. If you are planning on prosecuting this individual, you need to be careful not to cross that line between enticement and entrapment. What you are talking about doing sounds like it is ethical and legal on your side. A honeypot, so to speak, is legal and can be used as a means of identifying and logging the actions of an attacker. Lowering your defenses to "entice" an attacker to that specific machine is perfectly legal. Should you trick that individual into mistakenly going to your machine and then logging that information, you have crossed the line and forfeit your ability to prosecute that individual. From what I am reading about what you are planning on doing, you are within the ethical and legal limits. Just be careful not to cross them. You could lose your ability to prosecute and possibly get yourself in trouble. I only bring this up because I do see a lot of this happen. Perfectly innocent people just trying to catch attackers that get a little zealous and screw themselves up. Something to think about.
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I just wanted to bring up a point that you might want to be careful about. If you are planning on prosecuting this individual, you need to be careful not to cross that line between enticement and entrapment. What you are talking about doing sounds like it is ethical and legal on your side. A honeypot, so to speak, is legal and can be used as a means of identifying and logging the actions of an attacker. Lowering your defenses to "entice" an attacker to that specific machine is perfectly legal. Should you trick that individual into mistakenly going to your machine and then logging that information, you have crossed the line and forfeit your ability to prosecute that individual. From what I am reading about what you are planning on doing, you are within the ethical and legal limits. Just be careful not to cross them. You could lose your ability to prosecute and possibly get yourself in trouble. I only bring this up because I do see a lot of this happen. Perfectly innocent people just trying to catch attackers that get a little zealous and screw themselves up. Something to think about.
