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• "About identity theft." Federal Trade Commission. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/
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• Anderson, Nate. "Data security law comes online in New York." Ars Technica. Dec. 8, 2005. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5712.html
• "CAPTCHA: Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically."
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