Social Issues

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

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CIO July 1, 2002 Michael Goldberg	Does Biometrics Work? We'll Soon Find Out NIST is slated to tell Congress in October which biometrics products, if any, work as advertised.
PC World June 27, 2002 Joris Evers	Windows Media Player Flaw Puts PCs at Risk Security hole in media player's antipiracy feature could allow hackers to access your computer.
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan	Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy.
Salon.com June 24, 2002 Andrew Leonard	Spam vs. spam The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.
PC World June 19, 2002 Tom Mainelli	Newsgroups Get a New Life Usenet's ranks swell as surfers seek community and free stuff -- raising interest in other camps.
CIO June 15, 2002 Sarah D. Scalet	They Want You for a Safer Infrastructure Richard Clarke and Howard Schmidt are coordinating a volunteer effort to try to protect the nation's critical infrastructure. Can they convince corporate America to play along?
CIO June 15, 2002 Stephanie Overby	Stopping Epidemics Early Even before last year's anthrax cases, doctors and public health officials had been testing Web-based databases and other bio-surveillance technologies that could help monitor medical data to stem an outbreak before it spreads.
PC World June 14, 2002 Tom Spring	Has Your Browser Been Hijacked Lately? Lop.com's drive-by download marketing tactics irk some surfers.
PC World June 13, 2002 Sam Costello	First JPEG Virus Identified McAfee studies lab virus that could change the way digital infections spread -- and are contained.
Salon.com June 13, 2002 Damien Cave	File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
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