Crossword clues for honeypot
honeypot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A pot of honey. 2 (context chiefly British English) A place which attracts visitors. 3 (context computing English) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. 4 (context espionage English) A spy who uses sex to trap and blackmail their target. 5 (context US slang English) vagina. 6 (context US slang dated English) A pet name for a loved one. 7 (context obsolete English) a chamberpot or slop bucket. n. 1 A pot of honey. 2 (context chiefly British English) A place which attracts visitors. 3 (context computing English) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. 4 (context espionage English) A spy who uses sex to trap and blackmail their target. 5 (context US slang English) vagina. 6 (context US slang dated English) A pet name for a loved one. 7 (context obsolete English) a chamberpot or slop bucket.
WordNet
n. South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup- or goblet-shaped resembling globe artichokes [syn: king protea, Protea cynaroides]
Wikipedia
In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. Generally, a honeypot consists of data (for example, in a network site) that appears to be a legitimate part of the site but is actually isolated and monitored, and that seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers, which are then blocked. This is similar to the police baiting a criminal and then conducting undercover surveillance, and finally punishing the criminal.
A honeypot site is a location attracting a large number of tourists who, due to their numbers, place pressure on the environment and local people.
Honeypots are frequently used by cities or countries to manage their tourism industry. The use of honeypots can protect fragile land away from major cities while satisfying tourists. One such example is the construction of local parks to prevent tourists from damaging more valuable ecosystems farther from their main destination. Honeypots have the added benefit of concentrating a large number of income-generating visitors in one place, thus developing that area, and in turn making the area more appealing to tourists.
However, honeypots can suffer from problems of overcrowding, including litter, vandalism, and strain on facilities and transport networks. Honeypots attract tourists because of parking spaces, shopping centres, parks and public toilets.The tourist shops are normally placed all over the shopping centre, which creates pressure on the whole centre to keep the place looking tidy. For example, Stratford –upon–Avon has shops that are aimed mostly at tourists. On a particular street, there were 5 shops that were aimed towards the locals and 10 shops catering to tourists, reflecting the business opportunity that tourism presents for shopkeepers and other business people in the local economy.
Honeypot is literally:
- A pottery vessel, jar or other container used to store honey
But as a metaphor, a honeypot or a honeytrap may refer to:
- Honey trapping
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Espionage recruitment involving sexual seduction in
- reality
- fiction
- A type of sting operation such as a
- Bait car
- Honeypot (computing), a trap to help fight unauthorized computer access
- Honeypot (tourism), a honey pot site is a particularly popular visitor attraction which attracts tourists, and sometimes locals, in large numbers.
- Honeypot, a common name for the flowering plant Protea cynaroides
- Honeypot ant, one of several species of ants
- The Honey Pot, a 1967 film starring Rex Harrison and Susan Hayward
- "Honeypot", a season 1 episode of 2009 animated TV series Archer
- "Honeypot", a song by Beat Happening on their Beat Happening album
- "Honeypot", a song by Rebelution on their Peace of Mind album
Usage examples of "honeypot".
On one, a gray-haired grandmother emptied a honeypot over the stern, unmindful of the stench that blanketed the air.
Sweetbriar the Popole who broke the bank on Honeypot and got it offworld.
He devoured her with his eyes, his hands, his mouth, stroking the smooth white skin of her thighs with the tips of his fingers, trailing them with his lips until the seaweed scent of the sea was obliterated by the sweet muskiness of her desire and he dipped his tongue into the honeypot, drawn irresistibly by the dizzying, addictive essence of her.
His teeth tugged gently at the fullness of her lower lip, teasing her lips apart, and he dipped his tongue into the honeypot of her mouth.
You are not forever buzzing around the honeypot, like some others I know.
By the time Falion returned, he had the honeypot and a dish of ginger and cloves sitting on the wide kitchen table with a pitcher full of wine, and a poker thrust into the fire.
Not catching the mood, she fussed about setting the green porcelain teapot and cups just so, the silver honeypot and small pitcher of cream and lace-edged linen napkins, until Sheriam finally snapped at her so fiercely to be about her work that Tabitha squeaked and dropped a wide-eyed curtsy that nearly put her head on the floor and ran.
Make him build me a honeypot of a city, where every manner of creature came, and there in the middle of it, my little cross could be gathering power.
The animal scent of her lubricating juices wafted its way to his nostrils, another instant jerk reminding his penis of the honeypot awaiting its attention.
On the northeast side of the harbor were the slums of the Downwind District, with the human garbage heap called the Honeypot highest on the slope to the ridge.
It was upwind of the stench of the Honeypot, and it was a nicer place to live.
Hotheads in the Honeypot were all for burning the city down around our ears over losing Sarai.
Most raced through the shadows to the Honeypot and up over the ridge, vanishing into the forest that lay on its northern side.
The truth was that the rebels had set fire to the Honeypot, then melted away, into the city via sewers and tunnels or up and over the ridge, into the mountains.
Downwind and the Honeypot, and the folks in Dockmarket are closing up.