December 5th, 2005, 08:14 PM
You make perfect sense, but I don't think or intend to imply that "production" means the honeypots are fulfilling a business function. I think, too, that the honeynet project also doesn't mean to...
December 5th, 2005, 07:31 PM
The distinction I'd make is that honeypots such as Jackpot (or an improved, supported Jackpot, if any) actually accomplish something that tends to injure the absuers or create a cost to them. It is...
December 5th, 2005, 03:11 PM
Yes - although if it is run in a mode where it delivers nothing it is still useful. I saw that sometimes it did deliver spam, and that's bad enough to be avoided. "Production" is a word chosen by...
December 5th, 2005, 05:18 AM
Exactly.
As it happens my honeypot was both an SMTP server and a honeypot. That's because it was a server first and because it was easier (and less expensive) to configure the SMTP server to...
December 5th, 2005, 05:04 AM
Jackpot and the bubblegum Proxypot are (or can be) production honeypots . You don't simply learn from them. they can (and do) capture spam before it reaches the destination server. As they...
December 5th, 2005, 04:44 AM
I tihnk the notion about the possible bad legal ramifications of honeypots came from just one guy (federal employee, a lawyer), whose name I don't recall. His proposed scenario was that an abuser...