MIRE: A Black Hole for Cyberspace
Hackers are everywhere, all the time and all at once.
Bring up a website or other resource and it will be poked and probed almost immediately. The contents will be scanned and those probing will look for files that are not public, not part of a website and not intended to be present.
Hackers don’t just knock on your front door; they rattle every window, lift every floorboard, and feel around in the dark for anything you forgot to lock. MIRE turns that chaos into a trap-filled funhouse where every “promising” lead is actually a dead end dripping with treacle.
"All your files are belong to us"
C³: Causing Cost and Confusion
MIRE is the treacle that ties hackers up.
MIRE serves molasses to the attackers and costs them time and possibly money.
MIRE creates confusion by sharing worthless files and secrets that will eventually be discovered to be useless.
The C³ idea—causing cost and confusion—means every step the attacker takes should feel like progress but actually burns their time and attention.
They find “credentials,” “backups,” “secret configs,” and “admin” paths that look authentic, only to slowly realize none of them lead to anything of value.
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The Treacle Effect
MIRE is the treacle that ties hackers up.
MIRE serves molasses to the attackers and costs them time and possibly money.
MIRE creates confusion by sharing worthless files and secrets that will eventually be discovered to be useless.
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Turning Noise into Signal
All the junk traffic that used to be background noise becomes a source of intelligence.
Every fake file opened, every bogus endpoint hit, every decoy “secret” accessed tells you something about the attacker’s tools, methods, and persistence.
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Tipping the Balance of Power
MIRE flips the usual power balance: the attacker is no longer the hunter gliding silently through your network, but the mark wandering through a staged illusion.
They “feel successful” enough to keep going and end up investing far more than your defences did.