Re: Honeypots Illegal?

s. keeling wrote:

Ditto, and I'm not into this deeply myself. I just think if the law
goes the cracker's way, the law's wrong. Getting away with cracking
other's boxes because you couldn't see the login banner, which every
legitimate user would see, is just plain wrong. It *has* to be legal

Well, there must be some "criminal energy" involved to get in. A honeypot
should be firewalled or password-protected the same way (but obviously
different ports, different passwords) as the protected box/network.
If it is possible to "break in" without effort, there is no break-in in
fact.

to secure access to your systems, else they're not really yours.
Surveilling/logging *what's hitting on your network* has to be part of
that.

Agreed.

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