spoof

On the Internet, "to spoof" can mean:

1) To deceive for the purpose of gaining access to someone else's resources (for example, to fake an Internet address so that one looks like a certain kind of Internet user)

2) To simulate a communications protocol by a program that is interjected into a normal sequence of processes for the purpose of adding some useful function

3) To playfully satirize a Web site.

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