Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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PC Magazine February 25, 2004 Cade Metz	Havoc From MyDoom A fast-spreading computer virus teaches lessons.
CIO March 1, 2004 Julie Hanson	Wall of No Sound - Reality Bytes The recording industry is trying to stop people from listening to, talking about and sharing music. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Jim Wagner	IE Frame Exploit Grabs Keystrokes iDefense warns of an exploit that can grab login and password information from Web surfers.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Launch New Anti-Spyware Bill Two champions of last year's Can Spam Act have introduced legislation in Congress to outlaw invasive software such as spyware and adware from being secretly installed on computers.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Roy Mark	RIAA v. P2P: Same Old Song The music industry and P2P networks meet face-to-face, but a forumula to satisfy consumers and copyright holders remains elusive.
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Worms Continue to Wriggle, Wreak Havoc 'Zero-day' exploits and new styles of viruses send security firms scrambling to patch the latest holes in the network.
InternetNews February 25, 2004 Michael Singer	Security Firms Forge 'Cyber' Alliance A dozen software, hardware, and services companies will lobby for public policy and standards, but without the help of Microsoft.
InternetNews February 25, 2004 Michael Singer	Microsoft Proposes Caller ID for E-Mail In his quest to kill spam, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Tuesday appealed to security leadership, asking them to adopt his fledgling "Caller ID for E-mail" program.
InternetNews February 23, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Digital Dirt Road Divide Internet penetration among U.S. rural residents has risen, but the community still lags behind its suburban and urban counterparts.
InternetNews February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
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