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. 1997 Jun 10;94(12):6577.
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From the Academy. In the article “Security and privacy in the information economy” by Joan Feigenbaum, Steven Rudich, Matt Blaze, and Kevin McCurley, which appeared in number 7, April 1, 1997, of Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (94, 2789–2792), the authors wish to point out a printer’s error. The annotations to the bibliographic material, which were omitted on the page proof, were reinserted incorrectly prior to publication. The full text with correct annotations is shown below.

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