RE: HoneyPots: "legal or nor legal"

[Jeffery . Gieser]

Jim,

Using your wall safe analogy.  It is not the wall safe, itself, that is
illegal.  It would be the shotgun in the wall safe that goes off when
someone opens up the wall safe that is illegal.  This has been tried in
court.  Housebreakers that are hurt by traps set up in non-primary
dwellings can sue the owner of that dwelling for damages.  Unless, of
course, you kill the housebreaker=)  If I set up a honeypot that does
nothing but record stuff then I am probably not breaking the law but if I
have the honeypot trigger something that affects the hacker then that may
be illegal.  I'm not a lawyer but I also wonder how enticement falls into
this.

Regards,
Jeffery Gieser

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