Possibly. This may also be along the lines that you cannot put a camera in 
a dressing room stall to watch for thieves. It's your property but there 
are still lines that you can't cross. I would personally argue that a 
honeypot does not cross any such line.

At 01:47 PM 4/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>That's really weird and sinister.  Does this apply to monitoring of 
>private networks by their owners?  I can understand the government being 
>kept from monitoring communications on private and public networks, but 
>not me from mine or even me from a public network.  His statements, 
>carnivore and TIA indicate the Feds are making a huge power grab and 
>claiming ownership of all private networks attached to a public one.  They 
>own the airwaves to the extent that I can not make an "unauthorized" 
>receiver or even tell how.  Could this be their little way of nerfing 
>further into the internet?  Next thing you know, I'll need a court order 
>to look out my window.
>
>
>
>On 2003.04.18 11:10 Nashid Hasan wrote:
> > These legal games are sickening.......
> >
> > "Using a honeypot to detect and surveil computer intruders might put 
> you on
> > the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by 
> the next
> > hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney 
> warned
> > Wednesday."
> >
> > http://securityfocus.com/news/4004
> >
>
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