Chapter 4. Spoofing
As I watch the opening scene of the movie Mission: Impossible 2 (M:I2), I am amazed as a person who I think is Tom Cruise gases everyone in the airplane and takes the test tubes from the scientist who is sitting next to him. How could this be? I thought Ethan (the character Tom Cruise plays) was a good guy. Then, as he walks through the plane, much to everyone’s astonishment, he peels off the fake face he is wearing and reveals the true person. It’s not really Ethan, but someone who is impersonating him. This has nothing to do with computers, but this is a form of spoofing.
By wearing a mask, the person I thought was Tom ...
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