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Encyclopedia > Eavesdropping

To eavesdrop is to surreptitiously overhear a private conversation.

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Ancient Anglo-Saxon law punished eavesdroppers, who skulked in the Eavesdrip of another's home, with a fine. Anglo-Saxon law is a body of legal rules and customs which obtained in England before the Norman conquest, and which constitute, with the Scandinavian laws, the most genuine expression of Teutonic legal thought. ... The eavesdrop or eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves. ...


Techniques

Eavesdropping can also be done over telephone lines (wiretapping), email, instant messaging, and any other method of communication considered private. (If a message is publicly broadcast, witnessing it does not count as eavesdropping). This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Telephone tapping or Wire tapping/ Wiretapping (in US) describes the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party, often by covert means. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface // Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ... Communication allows people to exchange thoughts by one of several methods. ...


Messages can be protected against eavesdropping by employing a security service of confidentiality (or privacy). This security service is usually implemented by encryption. For other uses, see Security (disambiguation). ... “Cipher” redirects here. ...


In ancient China, it is said that to prevent eavesdropping when discussing important matters, soldiers would instead draw the characters on hands or papers.


The Canadian heroine Laura Secord is famous for having eavesdropped on the plans of the American army and delivering this information to the British. Statue of Laura Secord at the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa Laura Secord (née Ingersoll) (September 13, 1775 – October 17, 1868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. ...

"Belly-buster" hand-audio listening devices. After assembly, the base of the drill was held firmly against the stomach while the handle was cranked manually. This kit came with several drill bits and accessories. Belly-buster hand-crank audio drill. ... Belly-buster hand-crank audio drill. ... A bug is the common name for a covert listening device, usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. ...

Eavesdropping in fiction

Eavesdropping is something of a clichéd plot device in fiction, allowing the hero or villain to gain vital information by deliberately or accidentally overhearing a conversation. For instance, in "Letting In the Jungle" by Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli overhears the hunter Buldeo telling some men that Mowgli's adopted mother Messua is about to be executed, so Mowgli sets about rescuing her. Eavesdropper a novel by daya dissanayake 2006, published by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs Sri Lanka, as the best English Manuscript for 2006 To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A plot device is a person or an object introduced to a story to affect or advance the plot. ... Letting In the Jungle is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowglis adventures from Mowglis Brothers and Tiger! Tiger!. The story was written at Kiplings parents home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli story not written in Vermont. ... This article is about the British author. ... Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling). ... Buldeo is a fictional character appearing in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories  Tiger! Tiger!  (in The Jungle Book) and Letting Inthe Jungle (in The Second Jungle Book). ... Messua is a fictional character in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ...


See also

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