I was working on a slide-deck about the Office Graph and Delve and got thinking about the public and private signals in the graph.
In the graph a person viewing a document is a private signal as no one else will know that the person viewed that particular document. But even though it’s a private signal in the office graph, it is still not 100% private as it’s stored as a view count on the document itself via SharePoint search, making it anonymous information available to everyone with read access to the document.
And this realization triggered a whack idea about honeypot documents. Honeypot servers have been deployed for a long time to see how people are trying to break into computer networks, or bait them into hacking the server. What if you could use the same tactics to catch trends in a company?
