Honey trap
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- Police Usage and General Definition
A honey trap is a form of sting operation, in which wrong doers are lured into revealing themselves to a policing organization. Where a sting operation targets a known or suspected individual and attempts to trap them committing a specific case of crime, a honey trap establishes a general lure to attract unknown criminals.
So for example, the police might fit a bait car with hidden cameras and leave it in an area known for its problems with car crime as a honey trap. The expectation being that the car will eventually be stolen, recording the evidence in the process.
- Espionage Usage
In spy terminology honey trap has been used by Soviet and Eastern European intelligence services defining a woman entrapping businessmen and officials from the West in sexual liasions to retrieve intelligence and subserviance. This most well known case the U.S. was in the 1980s when the U.S. Marine Corp Sergeant Clayton J. Lonetree was entrapped by a female Soviet officer with revealing photographs.
Consequently, the term is used in detective novels and espionage novels to describe a trap using some form of sexual enticement.
- Computers and Information Technology Usage
On the internet, the Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org) attempts to attract and watch hackers breaking in to a number of network systems. In particular it monitors changes in routine and automated hacker activity, such as port scanning. See also Honeypot
External links
- The Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org)