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Security threats of smart phones and Bluetooth

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 3

Pages 150 - 152

https://doi.org/10.1145/1467247.1467282

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Security threats of smart phones and Bluetooth
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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Being Human in the Digital Age

March 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1467247

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