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The rapid expansion of open science has transformed research dissemination, but it has also exposed a serious vulnerability: the inadvertent disclosure of sensitive data in preprint source files (see Nature https://doi.org/rrjr; 2026).
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Nature 658, 572 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03177-x
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