Describe a man-in-the-middle attack.

What will be an ideal response?

A man-in-the-middle attack occurs when the attacker is able to intercept or monitor transmissions meant for a different computer. You might think of this as similar to
when someone impersonates another person. In the case of a man-in-the-middle attack, the attacker is literally operating between two communicating computers and has the opportunity to:
• Listen in on communications
• Modify communications

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Answer the following questions true (T) or false (F)

1. The programmer should always use a defined constant in an array declaration. 2. When using an array, it is perfectly legal to access indexed variables with index values less than 0 or greater than or equal to the declared size of the array.

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