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Recent Examples of honeypot
Partly because iMessage is a honeypot for spam, business notifications and OTPs and doesn’t have the natural cleanliness of other platforms—most of our WhatsApps (or similar) come from friends and family.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Traditional honeypots are invisible links that human visitors can't see but bots parsing HTML code might follow.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Windows remains a honeypot for cyber attacks and security vulnerabilities, for half or more of its user base to be off support is simply unthinkable.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Traditional honeypots are invisible links that human visitors can't see but bots parsing HTML code might follow.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Windows remains a honeypot for cyber attacks and security vulnerabilities, for half or more of its user base to be off support is simply unthinkable.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
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On Tuesday, against Baltimore Orioles starter Kyle Gibson, Trent Grisham began the home run bonanza with a leadoff shot that landed on Eutaw Street beyond the right field wall.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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After that, a further decline may happen at a much faster rate through to the 2050s as the uptick from the U.S. shale bonanza starts to ebb away.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Mar. 2025
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The city of Miami is one of the worst examples of how the gravy train works.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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In 1924, workers digging on another property near Boca Raton that was owned by a different developer reportedly unearthed a cache of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish and English coins.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
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Families of victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel sued a Palestinian American businessman, accusing him of developing properties to conceal Hamas tunnels and weapon caches.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The owner testified that the robbers bound him with zip-ties, taking both the cash and a stash of pot.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Their mini adventures take them from the locker rooms to the theater department’s costume stash.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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