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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:28 pm
by abcvirus
I think we can make an effective "spammer/flooder" honeypot and overtake their machine easily...
(make it slow/laggy so it cannot "brute-force" our password effectively)
What do you think?
source taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:55 am
by Zaffron
How would this be defined as "funny"?
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:01 am
by plope0726
Zaffron wrote:
How would this be defined as "funny"?
Not sure...but I think he's missing the point of a honeypot. It's mainly to lure attackers away from the real network.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 2:18 am
by abcvirus
plope0726 wrote:Zaffron wrote:
How would this be defined as "funny"?
Not sure...but I think he's missing the point of a honeypot. It's mainly to lure attackers away from the real network.
Now I understand! Thanks for the clarification - Plope0726!
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:09 am
by Zaffron
Nice... Considering it stated that the purpose was to draw attackers away like 3 times?
