By switch (not verified) on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 2:23pm.
...but:
If you are not familiar with darknettin' this is the practice of having servers out on the Internet for bait to allow hackers to hack them.
No. A "bait server" is a specific type of honeypot.
A darknet is typically defined as a trust-based virtual private network (darknets are almost always VPNs that use public infrastructure, simply because darknetters don't usually have money, time, or wherewithal to lay their own cabling from node to node). In a true darknet, all nodes on the network explicitely trust all other nodes. The term is mostly used with regard to file-sharing.
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...but:
No. A "bait server" is a specific type of honeypot.
A darknet is typically defined as a trust-based virtual private network (darknets are almost always VPNs that use public infrastructure, simply because darknetters don't usually have money, time, or wherewithal to lay their own cabling from node to node). In a true darknet, all nodes on the network explicitely trust all other nodes. The term is mostly used with regard to file-sharing.