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Adversary

The other side in litigation. For example, in a lawsuit, the plaintiff and the defendant are adversaries with respect to each other.
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That includes the army of social media trolls, some journalists-with-an-agenda and my political adversaries, whose vicious barbs, false propaganda and anger has taught me a lot & made me much stronger," Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet.
The transfer problem is very relevant in the context of cybersecurity because it gives adversaries a low-cost technique with which to attack diverse machine learning-based classifiers such as e-mail spam filters, network intrusion detection systems, and identity authentication systems, presumably at different locations, while generating only one set of adversarial data.
However, to provide the incisive analysis needed in fluid, population-centric conflict against adaptive adversaries, intelligence professionals must answer fundamentally different and deeper questions about the "relevant population(s)."
US deterrence policy and strategy, however, has proven slow to respond to adversary hybrid strategies, as US strategic thought on deterring nuclear-armed potential adversaries has struggled to keep up.
Below are the steps that many cyber adversaries use to compromise computer systems:
Meanwhile, we use anonymity method to confuse adversaries and prevent adversaries from analyzing the user's interests and finding location of the queried node.
Rey Leonardo Guerrero said on Friday that the possibility of martial law nationwide will depend on the 'political situation' and 'reaction of adversaries.'
Summary: Experts will take on their long-time adversaries, a revamped Washington Generals
While the United States and our closest allies fought two lengthy wars over the past 13 years--the rest of the world and our potential adversaries were seeing how we operated.