Word: eavesdrop
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...Whitworth on June 17 were grave enough. The one-count indictment accused him of conspiring to commit espionage, claiming that he had given John Walker, a longtime Navy friend, "cryptographic key lists and key cards" that were later sold to Soviet agents. Such keys would allow the Soviets to eavesdrop on coded Navy communications, and even, in the opinion of one communications expert, to change Navy messages for their own deceptive purposes. Holding the highest security clearances, Whitworth had been in charge of cryptographic centers on the carrier Enterprise and at the sprawling Alameda Naval Air Station...
...equation says there is no way anybody can eavesdrop on this without causing errors you can detect,” Myers said. “That’s a very hard thing to test because maybe I can come in and not [be able to hack the system without being detected], but how do I know there isn’t someone smarter than...
...looking for a reason to exist. By the late 1990s the NSA was becoming obsolete, unable to keep up with the pace of technological change. The NSA netted millions more conversations at its worldwide listening posts than it could translate or interpret. The agency spent billions to eavesdrop on chatter overseas that moved by satellite--only to see the world move to harder-to-steal digitized cellular, e-mail and instant-messaging communications. Meanwhile, at the NSA's sprawling Fort Meade, Md., campus, the agency's director could not send an email to all the NSA's 38,000 employees...
...addition to providing quick exits in the event of an emergency, Harvard’s system of fire doors offers plentiful opportunities to eavesdrop on your neighbors—whether you want to or not. FM talked to Deren E. Tavgac ’06 of Lowell R-24, and roommates Polly W. Klyce ’06 and Vasu G. Reddy ’06 of Lowell H-24, to discover just what sorts of embarrassing details you can learn living with an adjoining wall. We asked each room to make blatantly superficial assumptions about the other, then compared...
...eavesdrop on a spirited debate on interfaith marriage. “I married out of my faith, and I had to go to confession just because I had fallen in love with an Orthodox Jew,” says 47-year-old guest Michael Moreau. He wears red plaid and speaks earnestly with his hands. “I told my parents, I love Jews. Jesus was a Jew. My father told me I would be excommunicated...