Overview#

Observer is an entity that is able to observe and collect information from telecommunications, potentially posing privacy threats, depending on the context.

Observer can be any of:

• initiators
• recipients
• intermediaries
• enablers

Observer are distinguished from eavesdroppers by being at least tacitly authorized.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Anonymity Set
• Attacker
• Bad Actor
• Credential Leakage
• Data Leakage
• Data type
• Eavesdropper
• Eve
• Exploitation
• FLUSH+RELOAD
• Fingerprinting
• Firewall
• Front-channel communication
• Gateway
• Government Surveillance
• Identifiable
• Identity Custodian
• Indy Steward
• Intelligence Assessment
• Item of Interest
• Key agreement
• Logging
• Mallory
• Man-In-The-Middle
• Monitoring
• Network Analysis
• Observability
• Oscar
• Passive attacker
• Password Validator
• Peggy
• Privacy Considerations
• Proxy
• Proxy Server
• Qbit
• Quality of Protection
• RSA key-exchange
• Recording
• SSL-TLS Interception
• Software design
• Surveillance
• Undetectability
• Unlinkability
• Victor
• Wendy
• XDAS Observer