[Am-info] Honeypot Liability Risks

[Fred A. Miller]

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Honeypot Liability Risks

Speaking at the Black Hat Briefings, Justice Department attorney
Richard P. Salgado warned that honeypot law is "untested" and that
people setting up the servers and networks designed to attract crackers
could face such legal issues as liability for an attack launched
from a compromised honeypot and charges of entrapment from crackers
"charged with illegal activities."
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19506-1.html
[Editor's Note (Murray): "Entrapment," as a legal offense, is
one that can only be committed by law-enforcement.  A honeypot,
like any other system connected to the Internet can be compromised.
However, it is probably less likely to be so than most systems and
the liability issues are the same.  That said, counter-intelligence
is not an activity for amateurs.]

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Fred A. Miller
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Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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