Social Issues

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

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CIO April 1, 2004 Sarah D. Scalet	Phishing Pollutes E-Mail Stream It's the latest kind of Internet scam, one that's known as "phishing." Users are directed to a website and asked to enter their passwords. When they enter them the scammers capture the passwords for later use.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Study: Virus Attacks Up But Infections Hold Steady Last year more -- and more dangerous -- viruses raced across the Internet than ever, according to a new study. But there was a glimmer of good news.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	The Red, White and Blue of Spam Nothing has changed since the Federal Can-Spam Act became law except that more of it seems to becoming from the U.S., according to one industry player's report.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Google Moves to Block RSS Scraping Search giant issues a cease-and-desist order to block the distribution of Google News RSS feeds.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Roy Mark	House Panel Endorses P2P Criminal Penalties Judiciary subcommittee passes legislation sanctioning prison time for suspects caught trading 1,000 or more copyrighted files online.
The Motley Fool April 1, 2004 Tim Beyers	The Business End of IM Instant Messaging gets bigger every day, partly do to the effect spam is having on email. For real investment opportunity to arise in this market, spim must be stopped.
Information Today April 2004 Dick Kaser	U 2 Can B a Content Creator "The maxim is true," the report writers assert. "Anyone can be a publisher on the Web, and many Internet users are."
PC Magazine April 20, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	New Spam-Busting Schemes Yahoo! and Microsoft push authentication methods.
PC Magazine April 20, 2004 Larry J. Seltzer	The Lookout: Microsoft's Plan On February 24, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced a proposed open standard to deter e-mail spoofing, a scheme deemed "Caller ID for E-Mail."
Wired April 2004 Jennifer Kahn	The Homeless Hacker v. The New York Times A self-styled security expert and serial self-promoter, Adrian Lamo made headlines as a grayhat hacker. Then the Gray Lady came down on his head.
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