Social Issues

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

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InternetNews January 26, 2005 Roy Mark	House Renews New Anti-Spyware Push The 109th Congress renewed its efforts to pass a federal anti-spyware bill by targeting the malware menace in the very first meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
National Defense February 2005 Michael Peck	Soldiers Learn Hazards Of War in Virtual Reality The U.S. Army is testing the utility of a web-based training technology, the military version of the popular multiplayer online role-playing games, that lets soldiers share their combat experiences with troops preparing to deploy.
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Clamps Down on Mobile 2005 Stories Microsoft lawyers are attempting to force bloggers to remove a story revealing upcoming Windows Mobile technology.
Entrepreneur February 2005 Gwen Moran	Capture the Tag Are RFID tags in danger of being hacked?
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Roy Mark	FBI Abandons Carnivore New FOIA documents show that feds haven't used once controversial e-mail snooping system in two years.
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	The Worm in CNN's Headlines A recent virus threat masquerades as a legitimate headline pulled right from the news Web site.
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Chris Nerney	Malware: More than a Nuisance The growing deluge of spyware and adware is beginning to turn people away from the Internet.
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam Industry group says it will support Google's 'no-follow' tag that tells search engine spiders to lay off links.
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DOJ Scores First Criminal P2P Convictions The U.S. Department of Justice bagged its first-ever criminal convictions for peer-to-peer copyright theft Tuesday when two men arrested in last summer's Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty.
PC World February 2005 Brandt & Dahl	New Ad Attacks Ads and adware have a new way to get on your PC: via music and video files. We show how they do it and how to stop them.
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