Re: Need your helping defining honeypots

[Seth Arnold <sarnold () wirex com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:24:11PM -0500, Lance Spitzner wrote:
> A honeypot is a security resource who's value lies in being
> probed, attacked, or compromised.
>
> A honeypot is a resource operated to monitor the use by entities 
> who are unauthorized, or have reason to believe they are unauthorized, 
> to use those resources. 

I prefer the first version, as it leaves open the possibility that an
authorized entity may be doing unseemly things.

-- 
"It seems the power has been robbed from the founding fathers and is now
firmly in the hand of the funding fathers." -- Rik van Riel

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