By FIC from Chapin & JEAR from Lab

1. It is an attempt to gain acces to a sysem by posing as another user.

2. It is going under the identity of another as in sending an email under someone else's name

3. It is hardware or software that is fooled.

5. It can be a web site that looks like a bank website so people will enter their credit card numbers.

6. It can be when a person fakes your caller ID.

7. Also, music industries, make fake music and plant it in P2P networks to flood them with fake music.

8. It can mean jamming a GPS receiver by impersonating a GPS satellit's signal.

9. It is a trick that makes an e-mail come from a legitmate.

10. Spoofers are people who are trying to be anonymous online.

I found these facts at:

[ http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_hr/s960605a.htm ]www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_hr/s960605a.htm

[Marker][Marker][ http://www.psycom.net/iwar.2.html ]www.psycom.net/iwar.2.html

www.5starsupport.com/glossary/s.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57112,00.html

http://www.spoofcard.com/

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