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Encryption not only helps prevent eavesdropping but also ensures that sensitive conversations—like financial transactions or legal discussions—remain private. 2.—
Ruchir Brahmbhatt,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025 -
And there is an extraordinary and often controversial degree of cooperation between the countries’ intelligence agencies, as demonstrated in the Falklands and Iraq wars, in ongoing counterterrorism operations, and most recently in the PRISM eavesdropping program leaked by Edward Snowden.—
Peter Martin,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Apr. 2016
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Investigators spoke to witnesses, obtained statements and reviewed video surveillance footage before three people were arrested.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2025
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As surveillance expert Harry Caul, Hackman managed to convey all of the character’s paranoia, brilliance and utter isolation with little dialogue.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2025
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These inflatable decoys can be rapidly deployed, easily transported, and provide a low-cost means of confusing enemy reconnaissance efforts.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Light helicopters were first developed in the 1960s as part of a trend to create small, agile rotorcraft for observation, reconnaissance and the transport of troops into challenging terrains.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
2 Mar. 2025
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This is supported by other recent Hubble observations that imaged 100 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Instead, based on observations of more recent eruptions, an extremely hot ash cloud that dissipated quickly could have created the conditions necessary for the vitrification of human brain tissue to occur, the study concluded.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Wiretapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretapping. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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