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Eavesdrop
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Eavesdrop meaning
To hear (intentionally) a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in. | To listen for another organism's calls, so as to exploit them.
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I love the sociological voyeurism of it, the chance to eavesdrop on a pool of fellow citizens radically more diverse than those most of us encounter in our jobs or schools or synagogues.
The nature of end-to-end encryption makes it impossible for anybody else — even WhatsApp — to eavesdrop on your chats and conversations.
Eavesdrop on any nursing break room and you’ll hear some terrifying tales.
Some of these future spacecraft will be able to see through cloud and even eavesdrop on radio transmissions.
Essentially what this means is that if they were able to perform an interception, adversaries could eavesdrop on vast sections of the globe.
Instead of trying to eavesdrop on the argumentative little mammals using expensive voice-recognition software… the people of Vietnam simply eat them.
One of the biggest fears of the U.S. Government is that China will infiltrate communication systems and eavesdrop on Americans in an attempt to steal confidential information.
The team is working on applying ideas learned from LidarPhone to autonomous vehicles—which also use Lidar sensors—as they could also be used to eavesdrop on conversations happening in nearby cars through minute vibrations of the car windows.
Then others on social media began posting videos demonstrating how to use the FaceTime app to eavesdrop, and this Monday, technology news website 9to5Mac published an article about the problem.
What the law permits is that in very limited circumstances the state can eavesdrop on private communications.
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Once Phyllis exits, Summer will eavesdrop on the Abbott brothers’ chat.
A third party trying to eavesdrop on the key must in some way measure it, thus introducing detectable anomalies.
His listening device, " The Thing ", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States Ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to eavesdrop on secret conversations.
Its mission was to eavesdrop on the radio traffic of Chinese army and air force units in southern China, especially in and around the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province.
TCP veto An attacker who can eavesdrop and predict the size of the next packet to be sent can cause the receiver to accept a malicious payload without disrupting the existing connection.
Telemetry was also a source for the Soviets, who operated listening ships in Cardigan Bay to eavesdrop on UK missile tests performed in the area.
The passive attack allows a suitably equipped attacker to eavesdrop on communications and spoof, if the attacker was present at the time of initial pairing.
They eavesdrop on a gathering of workers, including Freder.