Intelligence: Facebook And The Virtual Honey Trap

March 27, 2018: In early 2018 Indian media reported cases of officers (one air force, one army) being arrested after getting caught stealing, or attempting to steal, classified documents for a girlfriend they met on the Internet (often Facebook). This is called a honey trap and usually involves a female spy befriending someone and seducing secrets out of him. But since Internet access via cell phones became so common in the last decade the “virtual honey trap” has become more popular in many parts of the world. By “virtual” is meant that military men, usually officers, are seduced by virtual women via social networks where the recruiters use…