Social Issues

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

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Fast Company January 2003 Alison Overholt	If You Have Received This by Mistake... Email was supposed to make your life easier, faster, and cheaper -- not messier, uglier, and cheesier. Here's how to keep the spam off your plate.
PC World January 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: The Dangers of Do-It-Yourself Security Beware the misuse of vulnerability-testing software.
D-Lib December 2002 Julien Masanes	Towards Continuous Web Archiving: First Results and an Agenda for the Future An outline of the contribution of the national library of France (BnF) to a general discussion of web archiving.
PC World December 12, 2002 Joris Evers	Microsoft Patches Eight Software Holes Security holes, two of which are serious, involve the virtual machine used to run Java apps on Windows.
New Architect January 2003 Christopher Null	Spam Filtering: A Fable Some IT magic just isn't worth the effort
New Architect January 2003 Bret A. Fausett	Ask Not What the Internet Can Do for You Your role in national security: the government's "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" starts in the home with the individual user.
New Architect January 2003 Brian Wilson	OmniCluster SlotShield 3000 A security appliance delivered on a PCI-compatible, plug-and-play blade
New Architect January 2003 Thomas Claburn	Pretty Good Isn't Good Enough Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption, won the crypto war. Whither privacy?
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 Vincent Weafer	Blended Threats - A Deadly Duo of Hackers and Mobile Code Computer security threats evolve and require defenses that also evolve. For any school or classroom that uses computer technology, Internet-borne security threats are evolving and becoming increasingly dangerous.
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 Judith B. Rajala	Web Site Filtering Web site filtering is the selection of Internet or Web site content deemed acceptable for viewing and/or prohibiting the viewing of objectionable Web content. Advice and practicable strategies for filtering in schools
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