There is a kind of counter intelligence tactic that I'm trying to figure out the term for.
Imagine you knew your boss was watching you, but your boss didn't know you were aware of him watching you. So you start acting a certain way to project the image of yourself, as an employee, that you want your boss to see.
What is this called in counter intelligence? I know there's a term, but I cannot remember the name; using secret knowledge of somebody spying on you to further your goals without them realizing.
Could be the case. In searching for "reverse honeypot", I just ended up on some Game of Thrones forum, reading this hilarious post about how Bronn from Game of Thrones is secretly, and perhaps unknowingly, bisexual. Apparently "reverse honeypot" is also a literary/cinematic term, meaning something to the effect of "unintentional stories that exist within other stories".
Unrelated, but landing on that forum reminded me of how awesome the Internet used to be when a lot of browsing time was spent on basic, old fashioned style forums. I think old fashioned forums sharpen your mind. You are forced to read a lot more instead of having everything neatly aggregated, which forces you to filter out information and increases reading comprehension. I have definitely become less intelligent in some ways as a result of the decrease in difficulty of acquiring information. We just don't have to do the work anymore, so it's kind of like using a calculator to do every math problem; you're gonna lose your math skills.