n.
A network set up to attract computer crackers so their actions can be observed.
Example Citation:
"Set up a server and fill it with tempting files. Make it hard but not impossible to break into. Then sit back and wait for the crackers to show up.
Observe them as they cavort around in the server. Log their conversations with each other. Study them like you'd watch insects under a magnifying glass.
That's the basic concept behind honeypots and honeynets, systems that are set up specifically so that security experts can secretly observe crackers in their natural habitats."
—Michelle Delio, "Honeypots: Bait for the Cracker," Wired News, March 7, 2001
Notes:
Honeynet is based on honeypot, "a trap set up to catch a criminal in the act." The earliest recorded use of honeypot that I could find is this 1994 citation:
However, the use of the adverb "classically" by the cite's speaker (a United States Attorney) indicates that honeypot has been used in law enforcement circles for some time.
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