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Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Nov 10 17:12:28 EST 2003


indronil banerjee wrote:
>  Hello, 
> Please tell me what is spoofing ? 

Spoofing is when someone communicates with your computer but changes the 
ip or system information so that the connection appears to be coming 
from a different machine then it actually is.

> I use suse 8.  Is it nefarious is some way ?

Yes, that would be a fitting term.

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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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