Social Issues

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

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InternetNews December 6, 2004 Tim Gray	Phishing Grows with Holiday Shopping Spike Attacks jumped 80 percent in November and now target the workplace.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2004 Rich Smith	How Now, Dow? Gullible BBC fumbles story on Dow Chemical. The con's originator may be looking at both civil and criminal liability for stock manipulation as well as wire fraud charges, as his tactic bears many of the hallmarks of "phishing."
Reason December 2004 Matt Welch	Biased about Bias Regarding media bias, the ideology of bias detection begets the shortcut of hyperbole, which then demands escalation when the conditions being described worsen. What are bloggers and other media watchdogs willing to believe about the target of their wrath?
Reason December 2004 Julian Sanchez	Soundbite An interview with Joe Trippi who pioneered the political use of blogs and other online tools. His new campaign memoir, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised reminds us that it doesn't mean the rhetoric isn't true.
InternetNews December 3, 2004 Tim Gray	Lycos Europe Pulls Spam-Fighting Screensaver Earlier this week, Lycos Europe launched an aggressive campaign targeting spam-related Web sites. The UK-based company took the offensive when it released a "screensaver that spams the spammers."
PC Magazine December 14, 2004 Jay Munro	Bots March In These worms could "zombify" your computer, but you can give bots the boot.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Fighting to Keep Smut-Spam in a Brown Wrapper Microsoft brings seven new lawsuits against smut-peddling spammers under the CAN-SPAM law.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Lycos' Love Leashed The company's anti-spam initiative may be stopped before it gets started. The ISPs fear that a retaliatory attack by Lycos Europe against a single spammer has the potential of causing "collateral damage" to innocent parties sharing the spammers' bandwidth, server space, etc.
Wired December 2004 Annalee Newitz	They've Got Your Number ... Why spam, scams, and viruses are coming soon to a phone near you.
PC Magazine November 22, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Is P2P File Sharing Fading? Have recording industry lawsuits slowed down P2P file sharing?
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