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The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls"). [1] An eavesdropper was someone who would hang from the eave of a building so as to hear what is said within.
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The Special Collection Service (SCS), codenamed F6, [1] is a highly classified joint U.S. Central Intelligence Agency–National Security Agency program charged with inserting eavesdropping equipment in difficult-to-reach places, such as foreign embassies, communications centers, and foreign government installations.
A Texas man allegedly made $1.76 million from insider trading by eavesdropping on several of his wife’s work-from-home calls about a merger, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The prosecution said, "The National Intelligence Service violated the president's order to eradicate wiretapping and actually conducted domestic political inspections using illegal wiretapping." On December 2, two former heads of the National Intelligence Service, Lim Dong-won and Shin Geon, arrested and imprisoned additional suspects.
"Border security and interior enforcement must come first," congressional Republicans wrote in a January 2014 statement, pushing for a "step-by-step, common-sense approach" instead of "a single ...
The eavesdrop or eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the rain water dropping from the eaves.By an ancient Anglo-Saxon law, a landowner was forbidden to erect any building at less than two feet from the boundary of his land, and was thus prevented from injuring his neighbour's house or property by the dripping of water from his eaves.
While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, ... scanners for eavesdropping, spy satellites, ...