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词汇 eavesdropper
释义 eavesdropper
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈiːvz.drɒp.ər/ us /ˈiːvz.drɑː.pɚ/
a person who listens to someone's private conversation without them knowing: 偷听者,窃听者
Doris mouthed the words, looking towards the door for fear of eavesdroppers. 多丽丝一边说着,一边看向门口,生怕有人偷听。
A lot of prison slang was probably invented to confuse eavesdroppers.
a person who listens to someone without them knowing, using an electronic listening device:
The eavesdroppers, armed with radio scanning equipment, can pick up talk from inside homes.
When intercepted conversations are clearly innocent, police eavesdroppers are supposed to switch off after a few minutes.
a person who steals private information by secretly picking up an electronic signal or entering a computer system:
He suggests manually locking the car in any situation when an eavesdropper might be able to pick up the key fob's signal.
The eavesdropper will know exactly which search query you typed.
Related word
eavesdrop
Readers become like eavesdroppers who overhear a conversation that is not really meant for their ears.
A small group of eavesdroppers were listening intently for evidence of a treacherous crime.
The audience becomes an instant eavesdropper witnessing a family's tragedy.
The country's mobile networks are vulnerable to eavesdroppers.
To protect data from eavesdroppers the system lets users encrypt the packets of data transmitted.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using the ears
attend
aurally
be all earsidiom
binaural
binaurally
catch
cloth ears
ear
earshot
eavesdrop
eavesdropping
hark
hearing
lend an earidiom
monaural
monaurally
non-auditory
overhear
prick
prick (something) up

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


International relations: spying and espionage
Stealing
Operating computers

Examples of eavesdropper


eavesdropper
From a quantum perspective, the randomness takes the form of entanglement with an environment that the eavesdropper does not have access to.
Actual readers become like eavesdroppers who overhear a conversation that is not really meant for their hopelessly-biased ears.
The audience roles that he identified are addressee, auditor, overhearer, and eavesdropper.
The goal is to reduce the amount of information available to an eavesdropper to a trivial level.
The added randomness reduces the final size of the secret key, but it reduces even more the information that the eavesdropper has.
As readers, we are at once drawn into the role of eavesdroppers overhearing two persons engaged in what seems like an intimate conversation.
Since the total amount of entanglement is limited, this reduces the entanglement of the key with the eavesdropper, and thus reduces the information available to the eavesdropper.
Fearing eavesdroppers, however, they communicated guardedly.
This ancient power has been used by the justices against eavesdroppers, night walkers, and common scolds.
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Thirty or 40 years' ago eavesdroppers and people who opened other people's letters were considered beyond the pale.
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The third purpose of clause 47 is to reassure people that their private telephone conversations are secure from eavesdroppers and snoopers.
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It is quite a different proposition from being an unwilling eavesdropper to someone else's conversation.
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However, they may supply enough information to allow an eavesdropper to deduce what the password is, using a dictionary attack or brute-force attack.
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All three points need to be monitored for unauthorized activity and need to be secured against hackers or eavesdroppers.
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An eavesdropper would hear both sides of the conversation.
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