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“>HoneypotsThe concept of honeypots has been around for years. Simply put, honeypots are systems designed to be compromised by an attacker. Once compromised, they can be used for a variety of purposes, such as an alerting mechanism or deception. Honeypots were first discussed in a couple of very good papers by several computer security icons: Cliff Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg1 , and Steve Bellovin and Bill Cheswick's "An Evening with Berferd." 2 Both instances used j 
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