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

[Shannon Carver]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Bernd Felsche
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2006 10:56 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Building a "minefield/tarpit" for worms
> 
> "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.

That's what I like to hear, a martyr for your cause!

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