Social Issues

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

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PC World November 2004 Dan Verton	Biography of a Worm Can anything stop the next global virus outbreak? We follow the trail of one recent worm to see how the security system works--and whether it can be fixed.
PC World November 2004 Tom Spring	Tech 2004: Where the Candidates Stand We uncover the candidates' views on Internet taxes, privacy, and other tech hot buttons.
PC World November 2004 Dennis O'Reilly	Future Tech: The Internet Reloaded In a few years, every new electronics device will likely have a network address.
PC World November 2004 Harry McCracken	Is This Any Way to Fix Security Holes? How today's software patching process actually helps hackers do their job.
PC World November 2004 Andrew Brandt	Listening In to Net Phone Conversations The ability to make phone calls over the Internet creates new communication options for all of us--including, unfortunately, criminals. Federal law enforcement officials want to make sure that when bad guys use Net phones, the cops can listen in.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Is Your Credit Card Number Exposed Online? Many of our credit card numbers are viewable online -- by anyone.
InternetNews October 12, 2004 Wagner & Naraine	MS Patch Barrage Comes With IE Fix Microsoft released its October batch of security advisories Tuesday with a slew of "critical" patches, including a monster fix for the Internet Explorer browser.
InternetNews October 12, 2004 Roy Mark	High Court Bounces Latest RIAA Effort The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected industry's effort to revive a controversial practice that briefly forced ISPs to reveal the identities of thousands of accused peer-to-peer music pirates with no notice to the alleged infringers.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Sprint Goes on the Offensive Against Attacks Sprint today announced two new initiatives to further protect its network customers from malicious DoS attacks.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
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