False information is fed to attackers in order to inhibit the
success of their attacks. Examples include:
providing misleading information to cause foreign governments to spend money on useless lines of
research,
providing false information that will be easily detected by
a potential purchaser of information so that the attacker will lose face, and
the creation of honey pots, lightning rods, or similar target systems
designed to be attractive targets and redirect attacks away from more
sensitive systems.
Complexity: Generating plausible misleading information
can be difficult and expensive, but it is often neither.
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