It's the NYT, not HN, but still they used the phrase 'honey pot for hackers'. The 'for hackers' part is what makes the whole phrase misleading. It's as if they

It's the NYT, not HN, but still they used the phrase 'honey pot for hackers'. The 'for hackers' part is what makes the whole phrase misleading. It's as if they said "Physicist says gravity is only a theory": A physicist would never use the word 'only' there, even though a non-scientist might. The word 'theory' means something very specific to a scientist but its meaning is a lot looser to a lay person.