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spoof
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vi. To capture, alter, and retransmit a communication stream in a way that
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misleads the recipient. As used by hackers, refers especially to altering
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TCP/IP packet source addresses or other packet-header data in order to
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masquerade as a trusted machine. This term has become very widespread and is
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borderline techspeak. Interestingly, it was already in use in its modern
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sense more than a century ago among Victorian telegraphers; it shows up in
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Kipling.
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