Passive Wiretapping
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
The monitoring or recording of data while it is being transmitted over a communications link, without altering or affecting the data.
MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
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'