Messing With Portscans With Honeyports (Cyber Deception)

**Executive summary:** This transcript documents an instructional walkthrough of HoneyPorts, a defensive honeypot/annoyance tool that listens on configurable TCP ports and automatically adds iptables rules to block IPs that complete a connection; it covers setup, running as root, demonstration with netcat, rule inspection and flushing, and addresses spoofing/DoS concerns by explaining TCP three-way handshake sequence number protections.