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Definition of snif in English English dictionary
- sniffed
- past of sniff
- sniffing
- The process of reading the packets that are being transmitted on a network
- sniffing
- A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose
- sniffing
- present participle of sniff
- sniffing
- Attack that collects information from network messages by making copies of their contents Password sniffing is the most widely publicized example
- sniffing
- is the term used to describe the use of a sniffer program to monitor data traffic to a network or server, in order to gain access information
- sniffing
- The passive interception of data transmissions
- sniffing
- A method of determining whether e-mail recipients are capable of receiving HTML-formatted messages This procedure is not recommended as it is flawed and may result in inaccurate findings