Just got a old system given to me on the weekend. It doesn't have working PS/2 ports (keyboard and mouse) So I'm going to use USB keybaord and mouse.

I'm looking at setting up a honeypot with this machine. Then with a Linux machine I was going to use that to hack into my Windows machine on my own network behind my firewall. Also just run basic scans and stuffn on my own network to see how the honey pot works and what information it gets etc.

I'm thinking then I might setup a IDS systems. Just to have a little play with that.

When all this is done and I got a betetr idea of how all this works and what can be done. I'm going to look at re-creating a distro of Linux for security. Not sure at teh features I'll do if I do this yet. This will mainly be for a learning thing, more then liekly wont go any further