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Re: Need your helping defining honeypots


From: Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:03:51 -0400

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:54:17PM +0100, Christian Kreibich wrote:
Enough babbling -- here's my attempt:

"A honeypot is a decoy computer resource set up for the purpose of
monitoring and logging the activities of entities that probe, attack or
compromise it."
Actually that sounds pretty good to me, too.

Niels.


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