Re: Honeypot Defintion - Almost There!

["Volker Tanger" <volker.tanger () discon de>]

Greetings!
On Fri, 23 May 2003 09:30:56 -0500 (CDT) Lance Spitzner
<lance () honeynet org> wrote:

> 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"

...value lies in the analysis of unauthorized or...

Setting up a honeynet and leaving it all alone has not much value,
doesn't it? Well, maybe as decoy/distraction, but then it would be 
more better called a tarpit (if it is a decoy holdung an attacker)?

Bye

Volker Tanger

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