honey pot

n. 1. A box designed to attract crackers so that they can be observed in
action. It is usually well isolated from the rest of the network, but has
extensive logging (usually network layer, on a different machine). Different
from an iron box in that its purpose is to attract, not merely observe.
Sometimes, it is also a defensive network security tactic you set up an
easy-to-crack box so that your real servers don't get messed with. The
concept was presented in Cheswick Bellovin's book Firewalls and Internet
Security. 2. A mail server that acts as an open relay when a single message
is attempted to send through it, but discards or diverts for examination
messages that are detected to be part of a spam run.
