Spoofing happens when:
A) an illegitimate program poses as a legitimate one.
B) keystrokes are monitored and recorded.
C) a word is converted into a digital pattern.
D) a firewall rejects the incoming data packets.

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Spoofing occurs when an illegitimate program, device or user pretends to be a legitimate one. This can be done by impersonating IP addresses, MAC addresses or domain names, among other things. This is done to deceive the recipient into thinking that the information they are receiving is legitimate. Keystroke logging is referred to as keylogging, whereas converting a word to a digital pattern is referred to as encryption. Firewalls are used as a security measure to control incoming and outgoing traffic, but they do not reject data packets; instead, they determine if the data packets should be allowed or blocked.

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