Snarfing
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This article is about data interception in electronic systems. For other uses, see Snarf (disambiguation).
Snarf is a term used by computer programmers and the UNIX community meaning to copy a file or data over a network, for any purpose, with additional specialist meanings to access data without appropriate permission.[1] It also refers to using command line tools to transfer files through the HTTP, gopher, finger, and FTP protocols without user interaction, and to a method of achieving cache coherence in a multiprocessing computer architecture through observation of writes to cached data.
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