While the xmpp backend works really good, I've had no problems during the last months, there were very little sensors, basically just my own and - from time to time - some roamers.

As such service is pretty worthless without users, I thought about how to make it more attractive.

The best thing I could come up with, was allowing all sensors to receive files streamed to the xmpp channel, so your benefit from contributing to xmpp is getting something back. And, as this was the most convincing thing I could come up with, I already made it work.

So, if you hook you dionaea to the xmpp channel now, you'll get back all the files collected by other sensors *anonymously* and in realtime.
They end up in the same directory as the files dionaea collects, and basically get the same treatment, so you even receive the sandbox results for them. The only difference in treatment is, you do not stream files gatherd via xmpp to xmpp again.

So, if you want to benefit, update your dionaea, verify the config is up-to-date too, and …

• compile the lxml python module as outlined here.
• add logxmpp to your ihandlers in your dionaea.conf

Thats it.