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what's to stop one from benefiting from the honey pot, but feeding them false information?
I used to work for a large defense contractor as a consultant. The best way to damage China would have been to let the spies see everything and hope they implemented the same fucked-up shit over there.
Unironically tho
Describe the technical specifics of your job in a way that misleads them as to the actual information you're working with, but that won't be immediately obvious to an expert that's potentially even more familiar with the source material you're working with than you are.
It's just hard to keep that kind of lie going - it's not impossible, but fooling someone with an entire intelligence agency requires a whole lot of both luck and planning.
There are very few optimal ways to do something. There are an infinite number of wrong ways.
That's absolutely been done before, giving spies false information. Not sure if it's ever been done via honeypot, who knows.
apparently counterintel is really hard to do, according to some other lemmy comment i read before somewhere.
it is case-dependent. not every honeypot operation is about gaining intelligence. some are just to discredit someone.