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The region is a springboard for Russian spies who go on to snoop around the United States and Europe. Read why the problem could soon get worse: https://econ.trib.al/P4iJOII

Illustration: Ben Jones

But someone was talking about it: Irving Luntz, the Milwaukee gallery owner. After weeks of being Picasso-less, he contacted the F.B.I., which began snooping around Logan. This unnerved a certain affianced couple in Medford.

Google Tightens Security to Prevent Data Snooping 19

Concern grows with new 'cyber snooping agency'

Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping

By AMY CHOZICK

Reporters at Bloomberg News were told to use the terminals to get an edge in the competitive world of financial journalism, more than half a dozen former employees said.

Tool Kit
How to Shield Yourself From Smartphone Snoops
By BRIAN X. CHEN
A smartphone is a depository of personal information. Here are measures you can take to protect your privacy if your phone is lost or stolen.

 On a hunch last month, the researchers used the Shodan search engine, a specialized Internet tool intended to help identify computers and software services that were connected to the Internet. They were able to identify a number of the Blue Coat systems that are used for content filtering and for “deep packet inspection,” a widely used technology for detecting and controlling digital content as it travels through the Internet.
上個月，研究人員突發奇想，使用了Shodan搜索引擎。這種專業互聯網工具旨在協助指認聯網的計算機及軟件服務。他們發現，許多步立康的系統被用來進行內容過濾和“深度包檢測”。“深度包檢測”技術被廣泛用於監測和控制互聯網中流轉的電子內容。


Snooping Accusation in Cartridge DisputeInk-cartridge reseller Green Project claims that printer maker Seiko Epson sent a spy to its warehouse, one of the latest dust-ups in a fight over printer patents.

Snooping on Web Traffic Gains Favor Amid Fears

BY CHRISTOPHER RHOADS

An Internet-monitoring technology known as deep packet inspection is gaining favor as a tool to combat viruses and make networks run more efficiently, despite concerns that the technology allows improper snooping on private Web traffic by governments and other prying eyes.
The technology created a political firestorm when the administration of former President George W. Bush used it to monitor international communications as part of counterterrorism efforts. Iran's apparent use of deep packet inspection, or DPI, during a crackdown on protesters last month gave the technology another black eye.

Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil

With sleuthing and satellite images captured by Google Earth, a dozen or so citizen snoops are filling in the blanks on secretive North Korea's map.

Celebrity Passport Records Popular
Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.



16.02. - Epicurial Europe: French Favor Fresh Fish in A Dish

It takes a lot of fish to make bouillabaisse. How much is a secret best
discovered by snooping into the kitchens of Marseilles, in the French
Provence.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew08biI44va89pI7

Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months

By NICOLE PERLROTH

The timing of the attacks coincided with reporting for an investigation that found that the relatives of China's prime minister had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.

中國黑客狂攻紐約時報四個月

NICOLE PERLROTH 報道 15:29

黑客大規模入侵始於10月25日關於溫家寶家人財富的報道發表之後。發動攻擊的電腦是此前中國軍方用來攻擊美軍承包商的電腦。

Hackers-for-Hire Are Easy to Find A feud between two billionaire brothers -- one claiming the other commissioned hackers to snoop into his email for just a few hundred dollars -- suggests how simple online espionage has become.

Town uses Google Earth to find unpermitted pools CNET (blog) So they logged on to Google Earth and, well, snooped around. Riverhead's no doubt honorable Chief Building Inspector Leroy Barnes Jr., told MyFox New York ...

dust-up
dust-up とは【意味】殴り合い,争い... 

hacker

[名]ハッカー.1 《コンピュータ》他人のコンピュータに不正侵入する人；プログラム言語を書く人.2 《インターネット》コンピュータマニア. ⇒CRACKER

hackery

[名]1 ((皮肉))ジャーナリズム.2 ((略式))《コンピュータ》不正侵入.

bouil・la・baisse

n.

1. A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish.
2. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests.

[French, from Provençal bouiabaisso : boui, imperative of bouie, to boil (from Latin bullīre, from bulla, bubble) + abaisso, imperative of abeissa, to lower (from Vulgar Latin *abbassiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Medieval Latin bassus, low).]

［F.］ n. ブイヤベース ((魚貝類・野菜の濃厚スープ)).

snoop 
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
1 to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something:
People were sent out to snoop on rival businesses.
She's the sort of person you can imagine snooping about/around your room when you're not there.

2 to try to find out about other people's private lives:
I don't mean to snoop, but is there something wrong?
Clara's husband is snooping on her because he thinks she is seeing another man.

snoop
noun
1 [S] INFORMAL the act of snooping:
I think someone's been having a snoop around my office - I didn't leave that drawer open.

2 [C] (ALSO snooper) INFORMAL DISAPPROVING someone who snoops:
He's such a snoop - he's always going through my mail.
Most journalists are snoopers by nature.

Definition of snoop

Verb

[no object]

• investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone’s private affairs:your sister might find the ring if she goes snooping about (as adjective snooping)snooping neighbours

noun

[in singular]

• a furtive investigation:I could go back to her cottage and have another snoop
• a person who furtively tries to find out information about someone’s private affairs: I start talking without admitting that I’m a professional snoop

Derivatives

Snooper

noun

snoopy

adjective

Origin:

mid 19th century: from Dutch snœpen 'eat on the sly'

packet

   音節

pack • et

発音

pǽkit

packetの変化形

packets (複数形) • packets (三人称単数現在)

packetの慣用句

buy a packet, sell a person a packet, （全2件）

[名]

1 ((主に英))小さな束［包み］, 小荷物, （…の）1箱［包み］（((米))pack）

a postal packet
郵便小包

a packet of post cards
はがき1束.

2 定期船；郵便船；（一般に）船.

3 《トランプ》カットしたあとの一方の札.

4 ((英略式))多額の金, 大金；相当額の不労所得；給料袋

make ［cost］ a packet
たんまりもうける［相当金がかかる］.

5 ((英俗))痛打, 痛撃；不幸, 災難, 失敗.

6 《インターネット》パケット：データdata の伝送単位.

buy ［catch, cop, get, stop］ a packet

((英俗))もん着をおこす, ごたつく；不慮の災難にあう, 大けがをする；弾丸にあたる；ひどくぶたれる, 処罰をくらう.

sell a person a packet

((俗))〈人に〉うそを言う.

━━[動](他)…を小包［小荷物］にする.