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