Snooper used in a sentence

Snooper in a sentence as a noun

A snooper could see the URL of files you have uploaded; however, the password will not be seen.

A snooper could only see you accessed en. wikipedia.

If you visit a non-SSL site from an SSL site and the referrer gets sent then the snooper knows the URL of the page you were on last. Whereas if the target site is SSL then no information is leaked to listeners.

But I agree, acquiring a global communication provider like Skype makes a lot of sense form a snooper's point of view.

Any snooper still sees a DNS lookup for this domain followed by a connection to it. This is not such a dynamic site - it's fairly obvious what you will be accessing.

If a snooper knows they're looking at snapchat traffic, decrypting it is trivial. At least with a key exchange, you have a good chance that only the targeted recipient can view the photo.

Huh , that is pretty scary add a physical packet snooper on all the traffic sent from my computer , it might be possible to mitm the private key as it is sent to the server. That way i might have a fighting chance against this.

We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not content of calls, but still, it's pretty unpleasant. We had / have "Phorm" - deep packet inspection of customer internet traffic in order to serve ads.

Personally I like being able to check passwords easily, while being intelligent enough to put barriers in the path of the 'general snooper.'

A snooper at the line level would be able to see that you were SSH'ing to a given system and the amount of data transferred, but nothing more. SSH has had very few vulnerabilities and has been really put through the ringer crypto-wise for quite some time.

Then, would deploying all this on a day to day basis suggest to a paranoid snooper that one is hiding something than there for a legitimate target for more snooping?

Probably for convenience, but frankly, it's not that hard to add/remove BTC from your exchange account so as to not take extra risk and leave it available for a hacker or snooper to take.

"The technology has reached a point to make a snooper's wildest dreams come true but at the same time there are more and more ways to get information about wrong-doing out into the open and to discuss it which hopefully results in action to correct it." Yes, but the cost for the whistle blower is everything while Darth Vader gets promoted.

Anything I don't want my Internet provider, government, or hostile snooper to know I just don't put online. I don't think I ever expected any less, since I was raised knowing the horrors and atrocities of the last hundred years between ww2 and the treatment of the Japanese and the cold war and the treatment of pretty much everyone.

In the case of an email snooper getting access to the password-reset link and clicking it before me, I would immediately know that there's an attack because, well, the password was reset to something different from what I entered, and I'd receive a notification about that, too. If they generate and send a plaintext password, then anyone who gets access to that email, even months in future, can silently access the account.

The technology has reached a point to make a snooper's wildest dreams come true but at the same time there are more and more ways to get information about wrong-doing out into the open and to discuss it which hopefully results in action to correct it. The awkward part of the Surveillance Age is that permanent vigilance is very difficult to sustain and any lapse or general complacency will be immediately taken advantage of.