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Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet -based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line.
A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, called bugging, or wiretapping is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and police investigations. Self-contained electronic covert listening devices came into common use with ...
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.Media is transferred in a "stream" of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content.
Royal Navy officers on the bridge of a destroyer on convoy escort duties keep a sharp look out for enemy submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic, October 1941. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Signals intelligence ( SIGINT) is the act and field of intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people ( communications intelligence —abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ( electronic intelligence —abbreviated to ELINT ). [1]
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