Re: Wireless honeypots

["Alan Neville" <aneville () isiclabs com>]

Matt:
I am currently in my second month of running such a honeypot,
in Dublin Ireland, over at isiclabs.com (Ireland Security Information
Centre).
If you need any additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards,
Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Harris" <mdh () unix si edu>
To: <honeypots () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: Wireless honeypots


> Has anyone every theorized the possibility of a wireless honeypot - that
> is, a wireless ethernet with a wide-open access point (or a somewhat
> more secured one if you want more interesting data...) with maybe one or
> two honeypot hosts behind it (not connected to the internet, so no worry
> of problems with being used as a launchpoint for attacks)?  Sounds like
> a possibly fun idea - I'm thinking about doing this in various
> geographic areas (my workplace in downtown DC, my home in Bowie MD, etc)
> in order to gather statistical data about who/where is
> sniffing/searching for open wireless ethernet access.  If anyone else
> finds this idea interested let me know, maybe we could correlate
> efforts, etc.
>
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