[CoachRufus87]

Out of curiosity, could you explain why creating a guest account as a honeypot is the recommended technique? My first guess would be to help identify who has the machine.

[bschwarz]

If there's no way to use the computer the thief will instead wipe the disk making it impossible to track.

[baby]

if you don't need a login to use your laptop, then a guest account is not needed.