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spoofing(1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing. spoofing [′spüf·iŋ] (electronics) Deceiving or misleading the enemy in electronic operations, as by continuing transmission on a frequency after it has been effectively jammed by the enemy, using decoy radar transmitters to lead the enemy into a useless jamming effort, or transmitting radio messages containing false information for intentional interception by the enemy.
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Spoofing has had only limited success so far, but the Industry defends it and other online trickery as a legal defense of music copyrights. Journalists are still ripe for spoofing and scamming, the Seventh Annual Survey of the Media in the Wired World finds. The group's mission is threefold: to build consensus around what information people need from browsers in order to understand their "security context," to find innovative ways to present this information and raise awareness, and to suggest ways to make browsers less susceptible to spoofing of user interfaces that are used to convey critical security information to end users. |
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