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Secrecy, Privacy, Identity

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Phishing attacks are so profitable because they enable cascading failures. Online identity systems that are built upon concepts of papers and identification enable these cascading failures in part because such systems do not protect privacy.

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Camp, L.J., Johnson, M.E. (2012). Secrecy, Privacy, Identity. In: The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1918-1_5

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