Re: Heisenberg in the honeypot

[James Riden <j.riden () massey ac nz>]

Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com> writes:

> Chuck,
>
> Thanks for the response...
>
> > This principle is flawed.  If you apply this
> > principle to a different
> > subject as well, let say, police sting operations,
> > Then this would become a
> > valid defense effectivly making All Sting operations
> > Illegal.
>
> Interesting.  Are you saying that the HUP is flawed,
> or the application I'm proposing is flawed?

HUP applies to quantum physics - there is no reason why observing a
honeypot has to change the behaviour of the person who is using
it.

I've seen a spectacularly inept cracker forget to remove the install
files for one of his/her root kits - stored in /rk no less - so it's
entirely possible a given attacker won't know it's a honeypot.

-- 
James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer
GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/
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