Which activity is used legitimately by companies to monitor network traffic, but may also be used illegally to capture confidential information?
A) Sniffing
B) Spoofing
C) Hijacking
D) Impersonation

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B: Spoofing involves altering e-mail headers or ip addresses, an act that has little productive use
C: Hijacking involves mimicking names of popular internet host names. Programmers sometimes use this during development, but A is much more popular
D: Customer impersonation occurs when customers falsify their identities and make fraudulent purchase requests, an act that has little productive use

Which Activity Is Used Legitimately by Companies to Monitor Network