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Unfortunately, the researchers using them are often faced with a similar plight as the unfortunate eavesdropper, leaning against a locked door with an empty glass to their ear.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

“I can’t tell if it’s metallic or what,” one pilot said, according to cockpit audio obtained by journalist Thomas Newdick from an earthbound eavesdropper identified as “Mike in southwest Wisconsin.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023

Now social media gives every restaurateur, nanny, production designer and eavesdropper a platform that could reach a global audience.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022

Communicating with entangled light can also guarantee security, as measurements of quantum systems can reveal the presence of the eavesdropper.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2022

He listened like an unwilling eavesdropper to the muffled, indistinguishable drone of the lowered voices outside.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller