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> is this purely to raise awarness? It feels to me like someone who has only just noticed that the majority of internet traffic is nowadays malicious. In abou
by denton-scratch 3y ago
> is this purely to raise awarness?
It feels to me like someone who has only just noticed that the majority of internet traffic is nowadays malicious.
In about 2002 I set up my first domestic mailserver, and was shocked (and frightened) at the proportion of traffic that was malicious. Then I started digging into other system logs. In those days most malicious traffic was from Eastern Europe. I've run honeypots, for entertainment. It was engaging for a while. Eventually I realised that running a home honeypot was a waste of effort, and I just hardened my systems and instituted a bit of monitoring.
- inetknght 3y ago> running a home honeypot was a waste of effort Worse than that: running a home honeypot puts significant risk that malicious activity would be traced to you.
- denton-scratch 3y agoNot to me, actually; the mail honeypot I ran purported to be an open relay, but it didn't actually relay the incoming traffic. It dropped everything, and just wrote a log.