Social Issues

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

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PC World July 9, 2002 Dan Verton	Experts Expect a Major Terrorist Cyberattack Security and intelligence officials say an attack will happen, and warn that we're not ready to respond.
Wired August 2002 J. C. Herz	The Bandwidth Capital of the World In Seoul, the broadband age is in full swing -- online games have become a national sport, and cybercafes are the new singles bars.
PC World August 2002 Kevin McKean	Up Front: The Secret War for Your In-Box Efforts to combat spam, and how the spammers work around them. Also, efforts to legislate spam.
PC World August 2002 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Online Investigators Know All About You How accuarate are the background checks provided by online investigative services? Plus advice on protecting your privacy.
PC World July 2, 2002 Andrew Brandt	Klez: The Virus That Won't Die? Brace yourself for another round: A variant of the resilient worm is wriggling alive this week.
Reason July 2002 Jeremy Lott	Disappearing Divide Thanks to falling computer and online access prices and diminishing skill requirements, the digital divide has been shrinking without government intervention.
Search Engine Watch June 29, 2002 Danny Sullivan	FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert.
Salon.com July 1, 2002 Brian McWilliams	Dot-com noir When Internet marketing goes sour: A sordid tale of spyware, "junk traffic," bodybuilding and a half-baked plan for Hollywood glory.
Information Today June 10, 2002 Elisabeth Winter	Judges Find CIPA Unconstitutional On May 31, just hours before its self-imposed end-of-May deadline, a three-judge panel in a federal district court in Philadelphia unanimously ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is unconstitutional.
CIO July 1, 2002 Sarah D. Scalet	Cheap, Cool and Dangerous A grassroots wireless LAN movement is rolling onto the networks of unsuspecting CIOs. It might already be too late to stop its spread, but it's not too late to make it secure.
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