Re: Wireless honeypots

["Marcelo Barbosa Lima" <mb_lima () uol com br>]

Hi Matt,

 I do not remember now, but I know that already exists an similar work. I
remember that I saw about it in Securityfocus site. The idea was take
attackers doing war driving. Best Regards,

        Marcelo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Harris" <mdh () unix si edu>
To: <honeypots () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:06 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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