Out of about 125 people we contacted, only one was thankful. The others were very not happy and looked at us as the bad guys. May. It started as a homegrown project by Lance Spitzner, who is a part of Sun Microsystems' GESS Global Security Team. The honeynet network is based out of Lance's extra bedroom. The honeynet is a standard production system, running real server software and applications.
Nothing is emulated, nor is anything done to make the system more insecure.
And like virtually all other networks, a honeynet is protected by a firewall that screens and filters inbound and outbound data. The risks and vulnerabilities discovered within a honeynet are the same that exist in many organizations today. But the Honeynet Project does not focus on prosecution. But they won't go to any great lengths to track the crackers down. Most security experts think that honeynets and honeypots are best used to track, trap and trace crackers who have already entered a particular system.