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Title	Dreaming the impossible dream for 2008: A patch-free year
Type	Opinion
Source	ITworld 12/19/2007
Summary	So here we are at the end of yet another year. It's always a whole lot easier to look back than to look forward, but if there's one thing that stays with us from year to year, it's security, or, rather the lack of it in many cases. continue

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