🚚 Secretly moving goods 💾 Secretly moving data

smuggling

1 3.5

To send secret digital information out of a secure computer or to another country without permission

noun
/ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ/

NSFW

: exfiltración de datos

Nevertheless, they remained influential among Chinese reformers and intellectuals, in both expatriate Chinese communities and in China due to the smuggling of their writings into China.

Examples

What they really love is they love election season and they love the the mainstream media because that that's the marketing for the smuggling organizations.
Smuggling hash.

Superbeast (1972)
The authorities launched an investigation into the smuggling of sensitive data across international borders.
Increasing instances of smuggling have raised alarm among cybersecurity experts in the tech industry.
Police have intercepted several attempts involving the smuggling of confidential information out of the protected network.

Synonyms

trafficking

vssmuggling

NSFW

183 5.6

Illegal buying and selling of people, animals and goods often across borders

focuses on exchange or trade rather than secret technical transfer

exfiltration

vssmuggling

Specialized

1 9.2

To take important data out of a secure computer or network without permission

is broader also covering transfers across systems and borders

illegal smuggling

vssmuggling

NSFW

1 3.8

Taking goods or people across a border in secret and against the law

applies specifically to digital data and secure system transfers

siphonage

vssmuggling

9.9

Illegally moving money or goods to use for yourself

is limited to data movement between systems and networks not theft for profit

Antonyms

transparency

146 3.7

Being clear so people can see or understand how something works

Compounds

illegal smuggling

NSFW

1 3.8

Taking goods or people across a border in secret and against the law

How Secret

espionage

Specialized

108 7.3

exfiltration

Specialized

1 9.2

smuggling

NSFW

1 3.5

sharing

51 1.0

Surface Forms

smuggling singular

smugglings plural

Morphology

smuggling = smuggle (semi-transparent) = smuggle + ing

This sense is a metaphorical extension of 'smuggle' from physical goods to data/information, so the morphological relation is clear but the referent is shifted.

Etymology

Smuggling comes from old Dutch and German words such as smuggle that meant 'to carry secretly', and the same idea now applies to information. So when people talk about smuggling data, they mean hiding files and moving them out of a safe place in secret.