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honeytoken

honeytoken

English

Noun

honeytoken ‎(plural honeytokens)

  1. (computing) 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.

Etymology

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

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