Re: RE: mouse trap + fight back!

[JohnNicholson () aol com (JohnNicholson () aol com)]

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In a message dated 5/17/2000 3:59:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
grwilliamson () Home com writes:

> The legalities still play an important though,
>  is it entrapment or did we put out a welcome message to greet the intruder.

We debated the "honeypot = entrapment" issue a while back.  I'd suggest you 
go to the archives and do a search on honeypot.  The short answer is that a 
honeypot is not entrapment, particularly not under US law. 

When someone breaks into your network, regardless of whether they break into 
a honeypot or your most sensitive files, they are still an unauthorized user. 
 For a further discussion of whether an unauthorized user of a system has 
committed a crime, see the article I wrote on the subject in the February 
2000 issue of USENIX; login:

John