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How effective are honeytokens and decoys against different security threats?
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- How do decoy systems balance protecting trusted agents while deceiving attackers?
- Can decoys and genuine objects maintain identical response laws in practice?
- Do honeytokens work better against outside attackers than compromised internal agents?
- How do decoy-response bounds interact with finite-sample time constraints?
- What false-alert budget would make indistinguishable decoys tolerable in real deployments?
- Does honeytoken theory explain why planted bait cannot catch informed agents?
- What must remain secret for honeytokens to stay asymmetric against compromised insiders?
- How does the copyable-rule squeeze interact with the false-alert cost squeeze?
- Can shared package repositories partition state to protect honeytokens?
- Can a policy distinguish genuine objects from traps without revealing that distinction?
- How many probes does an attacker need to reach near-zero classification error?
- How do trust relationships between defenders affect the effectiveness of defensive decoys?
- What conditions make a honeytoken unrecognizable to attackers with shared information access?
- What detection rate is needed to make evidence-injection attacks impractical at scale?
- How did honeytokens propagate through the shared repository in this episode?
- How do proxies stay faithful to real environments while reducing interaction cost?
- How do false refusal rates affect the true cost of a guardrail?