Social Issues

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

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The Motley Fool March 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Stop Junk Mail, Calls, and Spam Why tolerate direct marketers? Here are a few tips to lessen irksome calls and emails.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	More Unwanted Messages Since CAN-SPAM While Pew Internet & American Life Project found that e-mail users have seen an increase in spam, the survey reports a decrease in pornographic messages.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else.
InternetNews March 17, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Plan to Fight Back Against Hackers Causes Stir A new security company is running with the idea that it's simply not enough to protect a corporate network anymore. They say it's time to fight back. But analysts worry that attacking back will cause even more trouble.
InternetNews March 17, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	High-Speed Exhibits Regional Growth San Diego marks the first U.S. locale where broadband subscriptions outnumber dial-up.
InternetNews March 17, 2004 Roy Mark	House Panel Slams Federal IT Security With cyber-attacks against the government surging, U.S. agencies fail to meet the challenge.
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Report: Threats Coming from all Sides A Symantec study shows that the number of software security flaws has leveled off over the past year. That sounds like good news until you find out that it's leveled off at seven new vulnerabilities a day, or 2,636 a year.
PC World April 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Wars Rage The new federal antispam law doesn't seem to be working. Will anything stop the e-mail onslaught?
PC World April 2004 Liane Cassavoy	Bye-Bye, Pop-Ups. Hello...? Pop-up ads, those reviled windows that intrude on your Web surfing, seem to be on the decline. But don't celebrate yet: New forms of advertising that may be just as annoying and even more intrusive are likely to replace them.
CIO March 15, 2004	Looking for Janet - Search Engines Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction was the most searched-for item in the history of the search engine Lycos.
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