[Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a {cracker}
logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May
include a modified {shell} restricting the cracker's movements in
unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to keep him interested and
logged on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap},
and Clifford Stoll's account in The Cuckoo's Egg of how he made and
used one (see the Bibliography in Appendix C). Compare {padded cell},
{honey pot}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {back door}{firewall machine}{honey pot}{padded cell}]