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HoneytokensHoneytokensPosted Jul 24, 2003 7:58 UTC (Thu) by ymmv (subscriber, #4375)Parent article: Honeytokens That reminds me some Tom Clancy writing in the Jack Ryan series. Internal CIA memos would be carefully written to be slightly different (as to form, which could be changed, but also to content), as a mean to identify the source of the information leak. I don't know if that is in practice either in the US (where I've never been) or in Europe, but there's no reason it could'nt be. And that is obviously a sort of (paper) honeytoken.
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Honeytokens Posted Jul 31, 2003 16:58 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Yep; it was called the "Canary Trap" -- specifically, the summary paragraphs of each section were different in each copy of the paper, 4 our of 64 versions, IIRC -- they were intended to be quote-fodder, and if they *did* get quoted, you knew who leaked the paper.Quite ingenious, and the CIA probably *still* isn't using it.
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