My latest hard hat project has been “launched” and if you’re coming to LayerOne, you can see it in action!

I have a full project page live here on the site, which you can find at honeybear.hydrox.fun, but in short it’s a fully functional and live on the public internet SSH honeypot, that happens to be running on a hard hat.

Last year at DEFCON 32, while out and about in my wifi scanning hard hat, I saw so many other amazing hard hats and related projects I knew I wanted to make something new for this year. I also knew that I really wanted to go the extreme opposite direction in terms of style. To be clear, I love the cyberpunk, black, Matrix-vibey style, but I thought it would super punk rock to make a techy hard hat that was cute! That’s where I started on this project and I ended up with the Honey Bear Honey Pot software and a hard hat custom built to run it.

It’s also fully interactive in two ways:

1. It’s an open honeypot and by simply SSHing in ( $ ssh honebear.hydrox.fun ) you can access it live on my head when it’s online. You can also poke around and find some various little Easter Eggs hidden around the system. If you don’t know how to SSH or don’t want to do it via a terminal, you can also use the web interface at honeybear.hydrox.fun to SSH in.
2. If you just want to run the Honey Bear Honey Pot outside of a hard hat, you absolutely can! It’s fully open source and can be compiled for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

More to come on this project as I get feedback from folks at LayerOne or online and then I’ll have time for some improvements before DEFCON 33! I’d also like to do some videos and more in depth build details, if there’s interest.