1. What is the base- rate fallacy? 2. What is a honeypot and why it is designed? 3. Briefly explain the purposes that a salt serves in the context of UNIX password management. 4. Discuss the threats...

1. What is the base- rate fallacy?

2. What is a honeypot and why it is designed?

3. Briefly explain the purposes that a salt serves in the context of UNIX password management.

4. Discuss the threats to the UNIX password scheme.

5. In the context of an IDS, we define a false positive to be an alarm generated by an IDS in which the IDS alerts to a condition that is actually benign. A false negative occurs when an IDS fails to generate an alarm when an alert-worthy condition is in effect. Using the following diagram, depict two curves that roughly indicate false positives and false negatives, respectively.