Client Honeyopt Patent

[Lance Spitzner <lance () honeynet org>]

Folks,

I just found out the US Patent office has started an interesting  
online Wiki for submitting prior art for specific patents.  It looks  
like this is a trial program.  I also just found out they have  
Microsoft's patent application for client honeypots (called  
HoneyMonkey).  If you have done any research in this field I highly  
recommend you go there and submit your prior work.  Right now they  
have none listed which has me concerned.  In addition, you have only 5  
days left to submit a claim.  I went through the application, they  
have 5 different claims.  To prove prior art you have to select a  
specific claim and demonstrate prior art for that claim. The filing  
date is 01 March, 2006 so your prior art has to be before that.  Its  
most effective to have prior art a year before the filing. Claim #1  
appears to be the most broad and the one I suggest you consider  
submitting prior art one.

http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/20070208822/activity

Thanks!

lance

CLAIM #1
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A system comprising: a browser that is capable of visiting network  
locations as represented by uniform resource locators (URLs); and a  
browser-based vulnerability exploit detector that directs the browser  
to visit a given URL by making an information request to the given  
URL; the browser-based vulnerability exploit detector adapted to  
detect if the given URL accomplishes an exploit on the system after  
the browser makes the information request to the given URL."