A New Way to Catch a Hacker

[tpurdy at newsguy.com]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:22:00 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
<lynn at garlic.com> wrote:

>haven't map makers been doing this forever ... little out-of-the-way places 
>on their maps ... that don't actually exist ... and would only show up 
>elsewhere in cases likely involving legal issue.
>
>At 01:55 PM 4/28/2003 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28NECO.html?tntemail0=&pagewa 
>>nted=print&position=>

People that deal in postal mailing lists do this also.  Their clients
contract to use the names on the lists a certain number of times, and no
more.  A percentage of the addresses in the lists are "seeds", which
allow the list vendor to track how their lists are being used.

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