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No. I mean like a network location that is dedicated to being virus attacked and hacked to get the facts and to improve Linux security. Such a site could use honeynet tools. Technically, it is an open invitation to the world that site X wants to be attacked, and that the attackers would not be penalized for doing so.
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AFAIk most boxen deliberately put out there to get hacked are either honeypots or subject to "hacker challenges" to *prove* a certain product or GNU/Linux security works OK.
* What I'm trying to say wrt the benefit thing is that by talking about
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a discussion that I had with a Linux newbie interested in security
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and saying
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I'll relay this information to that newbie.
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that it made the OP appear as having rudimentary knowledge of security, and I was kind of interested in what this would yield...
Maybe it would have been better if you just had invited that certain person to join instead of "relaying" information.
