Honey-Pi Dispatch: Turning a Spare Raspberry Pi into a Cloud DFIR Beacon
9/13/2025 • 3 min readWhy I turned an idle Raspberry Pi into a honeypot that ships to Azure Log Analytics, plus the tiny set of commands/aliases I’ll actually use.
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