Trapping hackers in the honeypot – yeah, right

Why is it that some reporters, including those writing for the BBC – Trapping hackers in the honeypot – seem compelled to sensationalise stories just to get people to read them? At best this one could be regarded as trying to oversimplify things so much for the non-techno-knowledgable but just taking it too far, but I fear at worst it is deliberately misleading.

Just two questions for Mark Ward. Exactly what is your definition of the word “trapped”? And once you had them suitably trapped, what did you do with them?

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