Sniff in a sentence as a noun

Google AdSense its he only platform that even attempts to sniff out fraud.

But really, you're keeping someone on hand to drag your *** out after you pass out while you sniff up toxic fumes.

$50m in outright stock grants vested in only two years for a product VP?Not really passing the sniff test for me.

They're a reservations website, wake up, sniff reality and stop drinking the koolaid.

They can still sniff certain things using browser fingerprinting and so on, but this seems like the best I can do for the moment on my desktop.

Another great way of detecting bots is to redirect the visitor through an SSL connection and sniff their cipher suite.

There is no "don't sniff" provision and if there was, it would make promiscuous mode or applications like inssider illegal.

Even if I get my own server, whatever telco provider I use for the connection could easily sniff through my data if they wanted to.

Sniff in a sentence as a verb

In the case of a consumer grade wireless router, it could sniff the network for a while and use packet inter-arrival times and mix that into the entropy pool.

When I submitted the form, my password was transmitted in clear text over the Internet, where it could be read by anyone who happened to be in a position to sniff traffic.

I only got a little sniff of DI basketball interest but I went on a football visit to Florida and saw massive guys hitting each other and thought "I'm going to get killed" and never took the football scholarship.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy ****, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

This looks one of those cases that could have gone like this:"Someone proposed an idea that was perhaps technically legal, but obviously failed the sniff test of ethics and spirit of the law. I reminded her of what I repeatedly tell our staff at welcome/training meetings: At this company, we do what is right, for our employees, our customers, our investors, and the public.

Let us speculate you wanted to build a "legitimate" Pirate Bay type system, what would you have to do in order to pass the 'sniff test' for litigators while providing an otherwise easy to use service?I am not in any way at all suggesting that Mega is doing this, or that they are even trying to do this.

Here's a device that can listen to everything you say all day long, that can read all of your e-mail, take pictures of you and your surroundings, sniff all of your passwords, etc. etc. etc., but people are freaking out because it might be stealing your fingerprints, which you leave thousands of on various public surfaces every day anyway?

Sniff definitions

noun

sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

See also: snuff

verb

perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume"

See also: whiff

verb

inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row"

See also: sniffle