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All About Honeypots and Honeynets

Honeypots and honeynets can take the sting out of hacker attacks

By Simson Garfinkel

Ironically, monitoring your honeypot has its own legal complicationsfor instance, potential violations of wiretapping laws. Although there is currently no case law, most people familiar with this area of the law believe that consent banners are the way to go. That is, give every honeypot a banner that says "Anyone using this system consents to having their activity monitored and disclosed to others, including law enforcement."

Then, to keep your honeypots from sticking out like a sore thumb, every other computer in your organization should have a similar banner. But you've done that already, right?

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