More generally, " plausible deniability " can also apply to any act that leaves little or no evidence of wrongdoing or abuse.

Private activities can provide that deniability.

In computer networks, deniability often refers to a situation where a person can deny transmitting a file, even when it is proven to come from his computer.

If the employee is solely responsible for arranging any illegal prostitution-oriented activities, the agency can maintain plausible deniability should an arrest be made.

A celebrity can fight the release in court to maintain deniability while still enjoying the career benefits.

: In The Dark Knight, it is acknowledged that Lucius is fully aware of Bruce's secret identity as Batman, though it is never openly stated by either of them, so that he can retain plausible deniability.

An advantage of steganography is plausible deniability, that is, unless one can prove the data is there ( which is usually not easy ), it is deniable that the file contains any.

For example the sheer number of AKM rifles, manufacturers and users in the world means that these weapons can be supplied with plausible deniability as to exactly from where and from whom the guns were acquired.

In politics and espionage, deniability refers to the ability of a " powerful player " or intelligence agency to avoid " blowback " by secretly arranging for an action to be taken on their behalf by a third party ostensibly unconnected with the major player.

To dodge pointed questions regarding supposedly democratically controlled governments covertly holding people or employing torture, plausible deniability of knowledge might be used.

The Armor and Special Programs Branch is charged with development, testing, and covert procurement of new personnel and vehicular armor and maintenance of stockpiles of ordnance and weapons systems used by SOG, almost all of which must be obtained from clandestine sources abroad, in order to provide SOG operatives and their foreign trainees with plausible deniability in accordance with U. S. Congressional directives.

LRW mode also neutralized an exploit that could ( under certain circumstances ) be used to compromise the plausible deniability of a TrueCrypt volume by allowing it to be distinguished from random data.

Many stories allude to Fox knowing the secret activities of his employer, and yet keeping it to himself, most notably in the recent feature film Batman Begins ; at the very least, he is aware that his employer is not the shallow playboy he pretends to be, though he notes his preference of plausible deniability.

Trout felt that the mission would offer the government plausible deniability because none of his team would be connected as active duty soldiers to an actual government.

This is typically done to give deniability to the state actor.

The structure offered plausible deniability to the Fatah leadership, which was careful to distance itself from Black September operations.

# The CIA exceeded its capabilities in developing the project from guerrilla support to overt armed action without any plausible deniability.

Plausible deniability is a term coined by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.

In his testimony to the congressional committee studying the Iran – Contra affair, Vice Admiral John Poindexter stated: " I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out.

The IMU also provided the Taliban with a useful degree of deniability – under pressure from China to expel Uighur militants the Taliban simply sent them north to the IMU's camps.

Wright has compared Islamic Jihad to the Black September wing of the Palestinian Fatah, serving the function of providing its controlling organization, in this case Hezbollah, with some distance and plausible deniability from acts that might provoke retaliation or other problems.

He instigated the creation of the League as a covert ops unit with plausible deniability and used them to recover an anti-gravity mineral called Cavorite which had been stolen by his crime lord rival The Doctor.

Crypto-anarchists create this deniability by sending encrypted messages to interlinked proxies in computer networks.

* Covert abduction by government or other bodies combined with plausible deniability

However, he seeks out a way to regain this lost power, he eventually steals the plausible deniability in Gotham City, but he is prevented by Red Robin, who is stalking him.

So a variety of strategies are used to circumvent their legal and humanitarian duties, including plausible deniability, secret police, " need to know ", denial that certain treatments constitute torture, appeal to various laws ( national or international ), use of jurisdictional argument, claim of " overriding need ", the use of torture by proxy, and so on.

In the present day plausible deniability allows the supply of arms by governments to insurgents without the need for over elaborate ruses.

The Howard government's tough stance on illegal immigration was popular with voters, but the government was accused of using the issue to additionally send veiled messages of support to voters with racist leanings, while maintaining plausible deniability by avoiding overtly racist language.

Chinese " Subtle Spying " practice avoids and defends against the United States ' prosecution-heavy investigative counterintelligence procedures by introducing large elements of plausible deniability and obfuscating the line between deliberate and unintentional espionage activities.

However, as Allen W. Dulles was later to admit, because of " plausible deniability " planned covert actions were not referred to the 5412 Committee.

The primary strengths of SAD / SOG Paramilitary Officers are agility, adaptability, and deniability.

Agents under non-official cover are also usually trained to deny any connection with their government, thus preserving plausible deniability, but also denying them any hope of diplomatic legal assistance or official acknowledgment of their service.

Pussy's backstory is suppressed in the movie, while her sexuality is never openly discussed ; traits of lesbianism are subtly suggested ( though not without plausible deniability ) throughout the film.

Late on 16 April, President Kennedy ordered cancellation of further airfield strikes planned for dawn on 17 April, to attempt plausible deniability of US direct involvement.

If a node was only a receiver and did not send, then neighbouring nodes would know that the information it was requesting was for itself only, removing any plausible deniability that it was the recipient ( and consumer ) of the information.

Unknown to the prime minister, council member Inuyama Wanko-no-Kami ( Big Al Dente ), the commander of the Palace Guard, learns of his designs on leadership, but is unable to prosecute him for treason because of the plausible deniability he maintains.

The principle of plausible deniability is usually applied for pseudo-teams.

The primary motivation behind the protocol was providing deniability for the conversation participants while keeping conversations confidential, like a private conversation in real life, or off the record in journalism sourcing.

Still cautious of rejection, Townsend only indirectly and subtly referenced the subject religion and Bible translation in his conversations, and always left the officials enough room for plausible deniability.

Another example of plausible deniability is someone who actively avoids gaining certain knowledge of facts because it benefits that person not to know.

Some believe that Sir Boyle, who was related to Lord Kenmare and often represented his views in Commons, was also stating Lord Kenmare's true views on this occasion and doing so with his full knowledge, but in a way that provided Kenmare plausible deniability.