Wiretapping
The activity of eavesdropping refers to eavesdropping on a source of noise or a communication link in order to capture its information content. This can be done with listening devices and does not necessarily have to be done acoustically . Electrical and electromagnetic telecommunications connections can be eavesdropped using radio eavesdropping stations.
Most of the time, the word "wiretapping" is used for the unnoticed, often illegal form of eavesdropping on a data or telephone connection . Experts also refer to this process as "routing" a call. Listening to conversations in unfamiliar rooms is also known as eavesdropping (English for eavesdropping , eavesdropping ).
Anti-eavesdropping devices can be used to prevent eavesdropping .
Other meanings
- Listening to stored messages on an answering machine or voice mailbox is also known as listening to them.
- Listening to music during its production in the studio using so-called listening monitors is used to check for mixing errors or other possible quality gaps.
- In medicine , eavesdropping is a form of examination of the patient , whose breath or heart sounds are listened to with a stethoscope . The medical term for this is auscultation .
- Asking a student questions and getting the answers in preparation for an exam.
Listen
The listening itself is the conscious listening of sounds or conversations (eavesdrop) or the intensive attentive listening.
The term has a negative connotation when it is used, for example, in connection with secret service or official activities (" eavesdropping ") (listening to conversation without the speaker noticing).
It has a positive connotation in connection with music (“listening to the music”) or with poems / stories presented in a quiet or exciting manner.
More eavesdroppers
- Based on the hunter's language, the human ears are sometimes jokingly referred to as eavesdroppers ("... now open your eavesdroppers ...").
- The work of the technicians and scientists in the SETI project is also referred to as listening into space in search of extraterrestrial intelligence , in which background noise and radio signals are searched for with huge radar systems.
- Also as listening interception of will hydrophone referred mainly in submarines is present, receive the sound waves in the water and possibly locate to. (Example: sound emitted by whales, the sound of a ship's propeller). The listeners or eavesdroppers always have to carry out their activity during the diving phase.
Phrase
- The phrase "the eavesdropper on the wall hears his own shame" means that anyone who eavesdrop on someone with curiosity must expect to find out negative things about themselves.
See also
- Large eavesdropping , echelon , Article 10 law , violation of the confidentiality of the word , enemy transmitter , enemy is listening in , whisper vault
Web links
- Telephone monitoring accessed on February 23, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Berger: Unrecognized in the network. (PDF; 334 kB) Secure communication and research on the Internet. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2008, p. 219 , accessed on October 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Definition: Listening to TheFreeDictionary, accessed February 23, 2010
- ↑ a b Definition: Listening to TheFreeDictionary, accessed on February 23, 2010
- ↑ Idiom: Der Lauscher ... accessed on February 23, 2010