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Passive Wiretapping

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

The monitoring or recording of data while it is being transmitted over a communications link, without altering or affecting the data.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Passive Wiretappings
possessive
Passive Wiretapping's
pluralpossessive
Passive Wiretappings'