[plug] Building a "minefield/tarpit" for worms

[Bernd Felsche]

"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> writes:
>On 31/05/06, Daniel J. Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:

>> As Daniel pointed out, this sort of thing is called a honeypot - just
>> googling honeypot will get you started. There is also a honeypots
>> mailing list on securityfocus.

>Unless it's for research purposes, I fail to see why this is a good idea...

I don't actually want to attract probes. I just to blow their legs
off if they tread on my minefield. :-)

That should reduce their ability to probe other machines.
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