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snooping

vb. (present participle of snoop English)

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Snooping

"Snooping" can refer to:

In computer science:

  • Bus sniffing, also known as bus snooping
  • IGMP snooping
  • DHCP snooping
  • and in general listening in to any kind of communication protocol (such as ARP, TCP and so on)

In statistics:

  • Data-snooping bias, a concept in statistics

Usage examples of "snooping".

EFF broke a story that an NSA submarinewas snooping underwater telephone cables, Strathmore calmly leakeda conflicting story that the submarine was actually illegallyburying toxic waste.

NSA into snooping his mail, tricked theminto believing he had a partner, and tricked them into downloadinga very dangerous file.

There was nothing in the least unusual in men from the Council snooping round.

Then, when I was caught snooping around your building, you probably got suspicious that mine was not just idle curiosity.