Talk:Honeytoken

Compare to "salted" commercial mail mailing lists - monitored physical addresses sprinkled into commercial mailing lists rented to direct mail users, to detect unauthorized multiple uses

Also compare to fake files inserted by copyright holders to pollute peer to peer networks.

The term was really coined by Augusto Paes de Barros, during a discussion with Lance Spitzner in the Focus-IDS list.


 * Other examples of honeytokens would include celebrity names in a hospital database. So when some employee gets caught looking at John F. Kennedy's records, they get fired. This would be different than, say, the employees at the Passport office looking at Obama's passport, because they might have a legitimate need for that . Many such database systems have real-time tracking of honeytokens, so that if you're working at such a place, and look up a celebrity's records (or other honeytoken), usually you'll get a phone call or visit within minutes. Tangurena (talk) 18:12, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I've been working with computers for over 35 years, and my eyes glazed over after the first two sentences. Buzz, buzz buzz. This article is awful. Wikipedia isn't supposed to be forum to exhibit one's jargon prowess. --QuicksilverT @ 16:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Err.. what? I entirely agree that Wikipedia has too many articles of the kind you describe, but this isn't one of them. PeteVerdon 15:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

--- Merge it; a honeynet is nothing more than a collection of honeypots.

I've been working with computers over 35 years too, and I think this page (honeytoken) is legitimate. Probably the other honeynet-type pages are legitimate too. Saying a honeynet is nothing more than a collection of honeypots is like saying a freeway is nothing more than a collection of cars... so why not list "road" and "freeway" under the generic terms of "asphalt" or "car"?

Why this urge to merge? List same topics under one umbrella, yes, but list related topics under multiple headings... that's what links are for.

Geez, is this what they mean when they talk about the difference between is-a and has-a links? lol Damon Simms 02:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I also feel that a merge is not suitable and have therefore removed the merge template. --Lox (t,c) 18:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

honeypots are attractive
honeypots are called honeypots because they look like juicy targets and attract hacking. these honeytokens are "distinguished values" that are not particularly attractive, they are simply "magic cookies"... so, no, not a good name for this idea, an idea that exists in many forms such as fakes streets on a cartographer's copyrighted map, or even dye pack money in a bank robbery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.14.125.186 (talk) 22:19, 8 May 2013 (UTC)