honeypot

Noun

Meaning

South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

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Antonyms

peter bologna excalibur python winkle packer
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Hypernyms

protea

Related terms

honeytrap honeytoken honeynet

Examples

British intelligence officer Major John André uses a honeypot to trap and arrest Lee at an inn in New Jersey and blackmail him to further help the British cause. Source: Internet

A form submitted with a completed honeypot field can be rejected as spam, because only a bot would see and complete the field. Source: Internet

As if Pentax becomes a honeypot for a certain type of personality. Source: Internet

It may be a honeypot to find out people who want to learn about and use Trojans. Source: Internet

Or maybe just set the honeypot in a kickbox on my home network and with an AP set with WEP, hoping someone in the vicinity will hack it? Source: Internet

"The port redirection service was designed to reroute HTTP requests sent to the honeypot Web server to another remote Web server in a transparent manner, potentially making the location of the content source harder to trace." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

honeymoony honeynet honeypie honeypot ant honeysome honeystone