Quotes About Eavesdropping

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

So you were listening at the door?' 'Yes, because I love you.

There was an appalling silence between the three of them: the two who spoke and the shadow that listened, behind them.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen

quantum cryptography is a system that ensures the security of a message by making it hard for Eve to read accurately a communication between Alice and Bob. Furthermore, if Eve tries to eavesdrop then Alice and Bob will be able to detect her presence. Quantum cryptography therefore allows Alice and Bob to exchange and agree upon a onetime pad in complete privacy, and thereafter they can use this as a key to encrypt a message.

there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: Who dah? He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.

The KGB, however, was convinced that the entire Soviet embassy was the target of a gigantic and sustained eavesdropping campaign, and the fact that this snooping was invisible confirmed that the British must be very good at it.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap

Yes, Lin, you want me? Prabaker said, popping through the doorway from his eavesdropping post outside.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

he was not supposed to hear that;

Redtail groaned to himself, picturing the smug glow in the other tom's amber eyes. What Tigerclaw had said sounded reasonable, but Redtail didn't trust that he was really planning only to mark ThunderClan's borders. Before Redtail could turn away, Tigerclaw pushed his way out past the lichen that hung over the entrance to Bluestar's den. He stopped when he saw Redtail, and Redtail felt hot beneath his fur, embarrassed at being caught eavesdropping

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

you cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.

downstairs, she heard