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- noun Plural form of
honeypot .
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Examples
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Texas A&M University are creating "honeypots," or fake accounts that are supposed to lure spammers, who are eager to spread malware or phish for information, to social networks.
ARN News 2010
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But that, unfortunately is not possible with those kind of honeypots that I used (low interaction honeypots).
Planet Haskell 2009
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While these unsecured connections might just be an individual who hasn't taken the time to protect his network, they might also be "honeypots", or traps set by hackers to snag your personal details.
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"The Barracuda Reputation System detects spam by using" honeypots ", which are special addresses created to receive only spam and do not belong to any real user and through analysis of captive spyware protocol activity."
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On a trip to China several years ago, cultural sites like Lijiang, Dali and The Forbidden Palace were busier with tourists than I have ever seen in the honeypots of Western Europe.
Ben Colclough: The Great Tourist Rip-Off? Ben Colclough 2011
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On a trip to China several years ago, cultural sites like Lijiang, Dali and The Forbidden Palace were busier with tourists than I have ever seen in the honeypots of Western Europe.
Ben Colclough: The Great Tourist Rip-Off? Ben Colclough 2011
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You look at major advances like honeypots and and HoneyMonkeys, and they either come from private for-profit or non-profits (Shadowserver is a great example), not the FBI/CIA/NSA/Military.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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So, from Palermo, we literally turned our backs on the tourist honeypots and headed for the "wild west".
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You look at major advances like honeypots and and HoneyMonkeys, and they either come from private for-profit or non-profits (Shadowserver is a great example), not the FBI/CIA/NSA/Military.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
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I also question whether this would constitute “broad-based surveillance” or implicate 4A concerns, since many techniques of this sort (HIDPS, honeypots, known botnet C&C, backscatter analysis, etc.) are passive and noninvasive.
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