dead-drop

After a few minutes delay the phone could be probed for sensitive information and the results sent to an electronic dead-drop.

Discourse.net: Is Your Aftermarket Cellphone Charger Phoning Home? 2010

Mascheroni used the account to communicate with the agent and to arrange for deliveries of materials at the post office box used as a dead-drop location, authorities say.

U.S. Couple Charged With Trying To Pass Nuclear Secrets To Venezuela 2010

Mascheroni used the account to communicate with the agent and to arrange for deliveries of materials at the post office box used as a dead-drop location, authorities say.

U.S. Couple Charged With Trying To Pass Nuclear Secrets To Venezuela 2010

Box 12, the dead-drop Naldo had given to Herbie, was, in fact an old street trader - flowers in summer, seeds and herbs in early winter, before the intense cold drove people indoors.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

Mascheroni used the account to communicate with the agent and to arrange for deliveries of materials at the post office box used as a dead-drop location, authorities say.

U.S. Couple Charged With Trying To Pass Nuclear Secrets To Venezuela 2010

Their D.C. spy maps list the location as being a famous “dead-drop” site during the Cold War, where U.S. government turncoats who worked for the CIA or FBI would leave confidential information inside the mailbox on the street, to be picked up in the middle of the night by KGB spies wearing U.S. Postal Service uniforms.

You Know Where to Find Me Rachel Cohn 2008

Their D.C. spy maps list the location as being a famous “dead-drop” site during the Cold War, where U.S. government turncoats who worked for the CIA or FBI would leave confidential information inside the mailbox on the street, to be picked up in the middle of the night by KGB spies wearing U.S. Postal Service uniforms.

You Know Where to Find Me Rachel Cohn 2008

The crook finds a target -- a tourist in a hotel -- and calls his roper, who deploys the children to swarm the tourist and rip him off, and then uses the cellphone to arrange for a dead-drop for the loot.

Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives 2003

Prosecutors also say that she met with an undercover FBI agent and, following his instructions, left documents at dead-drop operations.

CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2004 2004

Those who confuse a drop-dead dress with a dead-drop address have not come in from the cold and are unable to cope with delicious nuances of espionage.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003