Social Issues

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

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Reason September 2004 Jacob Sullum	Aiding and Betting Federal prosecutors say helping Americans find online casinos or sports betting operations could amount to "aiding and abetting" illegal gambling, a crime punishable by up to two years in prison.
InternetNews August 4, 2004 Jim Wagner	IETF Prepares To Forward Sender ID The Internet Engineering Task Force is set to nominate Sender ID -- a consolidated e-mail address anti-spoofing technology for reducing spam -- as an Internet standard.
Wired August 2004 Erik Davis	Mars Gone Wild Poring over pictures of the Red Planet, widely available online, millions of amateur astronomers are coming up with their own Martian theories.
Wired August 2004 Noah Shachtman	Raising the Dead Todd Matthews sparked a movement that is redefining how John and Jane Does are identified using computers and the Internet.
PC Magazine August 17, 2004	The Lookout: URL Parsing Bug A bug in fully patched versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer allows violations of the Web browser's security zones.
PC Magazine August 17, 2004	Reading E-Mail Safely Expert advice on the best ways to prevent a virus from infesting your system.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Stephen Baker	Gambling Sites, This Is A Holdup Organized criminal hackers threaten to paralyze their networks if they don't pay up.
Fast Company August 2004 Scott Kirsner	Something Phish-y Fighting phishing, the online scam that could leave you with a big hole in your pocket.
InternetNews July 30, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Check Point Patches Buffer Overflows A buffer overflow vulnerability in Check Point's virtual private network (VPN) products could put users at risk of network takeover, the company warned in an advisory.
Wall Street & Technology July 28, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	Gone Phishing In the latest identity-theft scam, fraudulent e-mails trick individuals into coughing up passwords to 'secure' financial data.
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