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iron box n.
[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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