From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 25 11:34:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C3937B856 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19375; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:34:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39565109.2E718593@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:35:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Narvi , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jail(8) Honeypots References: <4.3.2.20000625122615.00afbf00@207.227.119.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote: > > At 08:56 AM 6/25/00 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > The thing is a booby-trap. It is somewhat similar to running a simulated > > > "buggy" application with the sole puropse of catching the would-be > > > attackers. > > > > > > I'm not sure if and how much it pays in the long run. > > > >I don't think it would hold up in court, as it would be entrapment. So > >what would the sense be in setting up a booby-trap? > > How so? Only if you are with a law enforcement agency would it be > entrapment. At least in the US, but then there is a term similar to > "enticement" (forget the legalese version), which may apply. "Attractive nuisance." -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message