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Promoting personal responsibility for internet safety

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Online safety is everyone's responsibility---a concept much easier to preach than to practice.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 3
              Urban sensing: out of the woods
              March 2008
              81 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1325555
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