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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Kevin Harrison)
Subject: Tar Baby for real?
Date: Thu Sep 20 16:40:04 2001
Well, someone finally did it. Tar Baby IC is real!... well, sort of. :)
Apparently someone has developed a system that draws hackers and trojans
(like Code Red & Nimda) into a secure server where all their attempts to
access the rest of the network are simply trapped. It's being called Tarpit.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46964,00.html

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Thwap!