honeypot risks?

[Justin Conover]

What are the risk of opening a box on then net to use as a honeypot
for testing/learning?  As in, would it be easy for a "hacker/script
kiddie" to take the box and use it to hack the NSA and blame me ;-)

I was thinking of using honeyd:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/honeyd/

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/

Anyone recommend any good books for honeypots, I have found the
following on amazon.com

Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
Know Your Enemy : Learning about Security Threats (2nd Edition)
Network Intrusion Detection (3rd Edition)  

I'm pretty sure I have that ladder sitting on my bookshelf at home and
will look when I get home tonight.