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Spoofing vs Masquerading - What's the difference?

spoofing | masquerading |

As verbs the difference between spoofing and masquerading

is that spoofing is present participle of lang=en while masquerading is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between spoofing and masquerading

is that spoofing is the action of the verb to spoof while masquerading is the act of one who masquerades.

spoofing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to spoof .
  • (computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose to circumvent security mechanisms.
  • (computing) Phishing.

    • masquerading

    English

    Verb

    (wikipedia masquerading) (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who masquerades.
  • * 1838 , John Smythe Memes, Memoirs of the Empress Josephine (page 330)
    • At supper, the same evening, after his return, the emperor was relating to Berthier, Mortier, Duroc, and other officers present, the history of his unfortunate masqueradings , at the same time laughing very heartily at his want of success in un-playing the emperor .