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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Makes more sense than the original. About 300 ghits:
I also like that the tables are decently spread out so one doesn’t feel like
one’s eardropping everyone else’s conversations!
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Annan to his wife: I can’t raise my voice, the Americans and the British are
eardropping (spying on me).
www.aljazeerah.info/Cartoons/2004%20cartoons/Feb/27.htm
... sending spies, undercover to all Muslim gatherings, eardropping into any Muslim groups in America and even using the facial scanning device?
bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/forumpost.shtml?toppid=247717
I mean just eardropping this morning I heard a lot. www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/ publications/series/paper3/fire3.html
By eardropping Madeleine’s room, you’ll hear her secret phone call to someone.
www.gamesover.com/gk3/day2.htm
Radio security is important to police to avoid criminals eardropping on their
calls, so encryption of communications is vital to them.
www.contactnet.ro/index.php?art=01304301&lim=e
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