Social Issues

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

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PC World December 2005 Anne Kandra	Consumer Watch: Charity Starts at Your Home PC Tips on using online resources to safely and securely make the most of your charitable donations.
PC World December 2005 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Who's Your Software Talking To? Delving into the sources of a PC's heartbeats.
InternetNews November 2, 2005 Roy Mark	House to Vote on Political Blogging Rules The U.S. House of Representatives delayed until at least Thursday a vote on whether the Internet and, in particular, political bloggers should be exempt from campaign finance laws.
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2005 Marydee Ojala	Natural Disasters and Their Online Implications Real-time information was available for Hurricane Katrina in ways it wasn't for past disasters because of the rise of information sources and blogging on the Internet. However, there are still ways for the technology to grow.
Financial Advisor November 2005 Joel Bruckenstein	Securing Yourself And Clients Identity theft poses a serious threat for financial advisors and their clients. Here are steps to take to prevent identity theft and related security concerns.
Searcher November 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse	Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention Ten things to do today to protect yourself against identity theft.
Searcher November 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Number 11 Is Missing Through all the spam and the phishing and the needless repetitions, e-mail connects people to people wonderfully.
CIO November 1, 2005 Michael Jackman	Spies in the Server Closet To skirt the Supreme Court's ruling last year against file-sharing networks, some programmers have announced they would pursue private, invitation-only networks -- so-called darknets. But they might also be courting a new channel for corporate espionage.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Lauren Aaronson	For Love of Money Malicious hacking takes an ominous turn in the form of targeted Trojan attacks, in which an e-mail attachment looks innocuous but conceals a dangerous cargo and is more likely to be opened because the subject line contains language calculated to lure a particular recipient into opening it.
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Jim Wagner	Fraud Meets Its Match on Internet The FBI and online job seeker giant Monster Worldwide lead an anti-Internet fraud initiative.
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