Talk:Honeytoken
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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.
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)
