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An Evening with Berferd: In Which a Cracker is Lured, Endured, and Studied

An Evening with Berferd

Source: Bill Cheswick
Affiliation: AT&T Bell Laboratories

This article is written by Bell Labs researcher Bill Cheswick about Unix security. Cheswick studied a hacker in the wild using an early honeypot system, designed to lure hackers into a contained environment where there activities and tools could be monitored. 

Keywords: Hacking , History , Tech Ethics