Open Source Honeypots: Learning with Honeyd
This question is more difficult to answer then it sounds. Many people have their own definition of what a honeypot is, or what it should accomplish. Some feel its a solution to lure or deceive attackers, others feel its a technology used to detect attacks, while other feel honeypots are real computers designed to be hacked into and learned from. In reality, and hence the confusion, they are all correct.
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