I have followed this project about a year. "LaBrea is a way to combat both port scanners and worms such as Code Red and Nimda. The original network administrator's "LaBrea" creates phantom machines which hold scanners and worms in a sort of "tarpit", luring them in, and holding onto their communications with what they think are real machines." http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/lbathome.html. In view of recent worms and some new purposed federals laws simply proof that any attack by a corp or gov can also disable in a sense their efforts held on a useless trail. Will post more when I have more time.