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honeytoken

noun

Etymology

From honey + token, modelled on honeypot, coined in 2003 by Augusto Paes de Barros.

  1. inherited from tācnian
  2. inherited from toknen
  3. derived from *deyḱ-✻ — “to show, instruct, teach”
  4. inherited from *taikną✻ — “indicator, symbol, sign”
  5. inherited from *taikn✻
  6. inherited from tācn — “sign, symbol”
  7. inherited from token
  8. formed as honeytoken — “honey + token”

Definitions

  1. A kind of honeypot that is not a computer system, such as a fake e-mail address used to…

    A kind of honeypot that is not a computer system, such as a fake e-mail address used to track whether a mailing list has been stolen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for honeytoken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA