Kevin Poulsen reports on Wireless Honeypots
War Driving might get a little risky again. It seems that a contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) launched what might be the first organized wireless honeypot, designed to tempt unwary Wi Fi hackers and bandwidth borrowers and gather data on their techniques and tools of choice.
The SAIC honeypot went operational on June 15th, and so far hasn't pulled in anything particularly nefarious: a single ping sweep of the bait machines, and a few people trying unsuccessfully to surf the Web.
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