Social Issues

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

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PC World November 4, 2002 Samantha Parent	Devious Internet Hoaxes Don't get snared by the latest wave of phony alerts and shams.
Salon.com November 1, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Guns, lies and the Internet in South Carolina Field & Stream's Web site was associated with a voter's guide accusing a Democratic Senate candidate of being anti-gun. One problem: He's a member of the NRA.
Information Today September 23, 2002 Miriam A. Drake	PCIPB Releases National Cyber-Security Strategy Recommendations On September 18, the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (PCIPB) released its draft report, "The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace," which contains recommendations for protecting our information systems and technology resources from the desktop to the Internet.
Salon.com October 28, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web.
PC World October 23, 2002 Paul Roberts	Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say.
PC World October 22, 2002 Berger & Weil	Internet Backbone Withstands Attack Monday's denial of service attack called major, but few noticed thanks to Net's redundancies.
Entrepreneur November 2002 Mike Hogan	Unhappy Trails Keeping your private communications secure isn't as easy as you might think. Any way you look at it, our reliance on e-mail and IM makes it difficult to keep proprietary information private.
PC World October 17, 2002 Michelle Madigan	DOJ Describes Its Cybersurveillance (Sort Of) Congressional inquiry satisfied, but some want more details about how Patriot Act power is being used.
Salon.com October 16, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied The Russian programmer expected to testify in the first DMCA criminal trial can't get a visa to visit the United States.
Salon.com October 16, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	Hunting Nazi art online Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II. American museums now think that the Web can help in their attempt to uncover the Nazi loot that may still be hanging on their walls.
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