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Re: honeypot risks?: msg#00170

Subject: Re: honeypot risks?
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:56:12 CST, Justin Conover said:
> What are the risk of opening a box on then net to use as a honeypot
> for testing/learning?  As in, would it be easy for a "hacker/script
> kiddie" to take the box and use it to hack the NSA and blame me ;-)
> 
> I was thinking of using honeyd:

You really want to be asking that over on honeypots@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
as that's where *everybody* is to be found.  Feel free to come back once
you get to asking "How do I use selinux to secure a honeypot?" (answer -
somebody needs to write .te and .fc files for honeyd).

Hmm.. actually, that *is* a very sensible thing to do.  Any takers? ;)

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