Ask HN: What Is a Honey Pot?

[jesuscript]

What is that, legally.

Since we in it.

[punnerud]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)

A way to filter and block bots

[jesuscript]

Ethics out the window right?

[moremetadata]

In a round about way, that is not dissimilar to tarpits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

But Honeypots can also also be viewed as forms of entrapment, and this can bring much of the internet when viewed as a honeypot into the context of entrapment and in some country's entrapment is illegal, ergo has the state prosecuted some people whilst ignoring the entrapment element?

[jesuscript]

I have a physical dictionary, every time I grab it, it slips outta my hand

I was lookin up ethics

Slippery hands, I suppose

Right?

Make sure my life is perfect.