RE: Honeypot Defintion - Almost There!

["Chris Carlson \(OTG\)" <ccarls () microsoft com>]

I started down the path of 'information gathering' as well. But
retracted because of the application of a honeypot as a hindering
mechanism in which no real information would be gathered rather than
served.

-----Original Message-----
From: eric () infobro com [mailto:eric () infobro com] 
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:34 AM
To: honeypots () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Honeypot Defintion - Almost There!



Original Message:
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From: Lance Spitzner lance () honeynet org
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:30:56 -0500 (CDT)
To: honeypots () securityfocus com
Subject: Honeypot Defintion - Almost There!

8<...>8
Am I being to anal here, too detailed oriented?  Without 
the word monitoring, the defintion would look like this.

   "A honeypot is an information system resource who's
    value lies in unauthorized or illicit use of that 
    resource"


Thoughts?

Since the idea that the honeypot is used to gather infomation how about:

   "A honeypot is an information system resource who's
    value lies in the information that is gathered from 
    unauthorized or illicit use of that resource"

-e

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