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Protecting against data breaches; living with mistakes

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Jason Hong writes about security breaches and offers a three-pronged approach. Greg Linden discusses the differences between computers and the human brain and their tolerance of errors.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 6
              June 2012
              124 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/2184319
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