I think you could employ the same tactics that advanced fuzzers do with these tarpits: then mutate the responses randomly, to try get "new" responses from the a

I think you could employ the same tactics that advanced fuzzers do with these tarpits: then mutate the responses randomly, to try get "new" responses from the attackers, instead of new coverage in the code as in the fuzzer. Unless they are using static scripts, which would be boring. I have understood that most attacks are super-simple sort of, so probably not much to learn there. But an interesting project!