The last thing I needed was someone stealing all of my money and my personal life.

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But even at that early stage, Armani feared someone stealing his spotlight.

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Two-step verification drastically reduces the chances of someone stealing the personal information from your e-mail account because hackers would have to not only get a password and your user name, they would also have to have access to the mobile phone to which the code is sent.

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The spokesperson noted that the Facebook log-in page is always encrypted, preventing someone from stealing your password, and also offered up a general warning for Web users.

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This includes stealing your wallet or purse, posing as someone who needs information about you, looking through your trash, or stealing information you provide to an unsecured website or in an unencrypted email.

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As a general rule you can claim a theft loss only if someone could be prosecuted under state law for stealing from you.

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Had Gadbois wanted, from the start, someone who knew nothing about physics, someone who would be incapable not only of stealing his ideas but of seeing through their inherent fallacy?

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