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Re:Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier by hw on Saturday August 04, 2018 @03:54PM (#17688213)
Is this a just a honeypot or a variant of one where you lead the attacker to believe they've succeeded, instead of actually making them succeed with an actual bug that leads nowhere?
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Re:Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier by adrianmonk on Saturday August 04, 2018 @04:27PM (#17688316)
It sounds like you just overwhelm them with dead-ends so they don't have the resources to exhaustively search for the things that aren't dead ends.
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