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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.
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