Spoof
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Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:
- Forgery of goods or documents
- Semen, in Australian slang
- Spoof (game), a guessing game
- Spoofing (finance), a disruptive algorithmic-trading tactic designed to manipulate markets
Culture
[edit]- A type of satire, specifically a parody, in which an original work is made fun of by creating a similar but altered work.
- Spoof film (aka parody film), a cinematographic genre
- Spoofing (anti-piracy measure), a technique to curb unlawful online downloading
Science and technology
[edit]- Biometric spoofing, fooling a biometric identification device
- DLL spoofing, using an insecure DLL loading routine to load a malicious DLL file
Networking and communications
[edit]- Protocol spoofing, a technique to increase performance in data communications
- Spoofing attack, the falsifying of data on a telecommunications network
See also
[edit]- Meaconing, the interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals
- Replay attack, a network attack in which transmitted data is fraudulently repeated or delayed