Re: Need your helping defining honeypots

[Sergio Pozo Hidalgo <sergio () lsi us es>]

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."
>
> I dropped the "studying" part as I think it's redundant; clearly
> monitoring and logging are pointless without later studying. Also it's
> not the honeypot that does the studying -- that's still up to us.

Hi Christian,
I think that it is the best definition right now (a better written 
definition than the mix I did yesterday).
Good work!

Regards,
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                  Sergio Pozo Hidalgo <sergiopozo () us es>
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