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The more I reflect on it, it seems that honeypots are the optimal way to conduct any sort of intelligence gathering.
by grandalf 15y ago
The more I reflect on it, it seems that honeypots are the optimal way to conduct any sort of intelligence gathering.
- eru 15y agoI doubt the universal optimality, but various works contain fictitious entries. Like trap streets or phantom settlements in maps, or ghosts in telephone books.
- grandalf 15y agoOne might think that just b/c entrapment is forbidden by US law that honepots are not used. All the law means is that the evidence directly gathered via entrapment can't be used. Unregulated things like Craigslist and Tor likely offer law enforcement and intelligence agencies more "honeypot value" than they "cost" in terms of petty illegal behavior.
- philwelch 15y agoBesides, not all stings are entrapment, as many men discover upon soliciting the wrong hooker.