A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, famed honeypot victim.
Illustration by E.H. Sheard
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Over the weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged that he had an affair with a woman who US intelligence officials had separately suspected was a spy for the Chinese government, setting off an ongoing corporate crisis at the chip-making behemoth.

You catch more trade secrets with honey than with vinegar, to paraphrase an old idiom. But when you do it, are you using a “honeypot”? Or is it a “honeytrap”?