Social Issues

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

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PC World June 2003 Stuart J. Johnston	Leaky Windows Keep the Hackers Out. Plus: Take care of performance problems caused by the XP service pack.
Wired June 2003 Bruce Schneier	The Enemy Within Because the Net is so often compared to a fortress, most Internet security relies on prevention. That's not bad, but it's incomplete. Prevention is the least effective solution, because it's static and passive.
Wired June 2003 Steven Johnson	Mind Share Blog space: public storage for wisdom, ignorance, and everything in between
CIO May 15, 2003 Scott Berinato	The Bugs Stop Here Don't blame Microsoft. Don't blame the hackers. Blame yourself for insecure software. Better yet, stop blaming and start moving toward operational excellence.
CIO May 15, 2003 Juan Carlos Perez	Reality Unlike TV Biometrics -- the use of IT to identify people using fingerprints, voice, face and hand geometry -- has its limitations. The applications aren't 100 percent accurate, for starters. And technology standards and concerns about privacy also are potential limitations. But it is improving.
CIO May 15, 2003 Julie Hanson	Cybersecurity Agencies Merge The Department of Homeland security has merged three organizations that help private industry cope with cyberemergencies -- the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the National Communications System and the Federal Computer Incident Response Center -- into a new agency.
AskMen.com May 7, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Avoid Spam E-mail Rest assured there are things the little people can do to overcome that quagmire. Read on to find out how you can modify your surfing behavior to minimize the risk of a spam invasion.
Information Today May 2003 Dick Kaser	Opinion: Net Rises to the Occasion National and international crises always put the Net to the test. How far has it come? What's it capable of doing now? Or, how have we managed to incorporate this new tool into our common, ordinary, everyday lives?
Searcher May 2003 Barbara Quint	Reality Programming For many reasons, this war is much less of a communal experience than past wars were. And the rise of Internet news sources simply multiplies the individual user's ability to design their own reality. And one wonders how to archive this new mode of history.
Searcher May 2003 Carol Ebbinghouse	Big Brother Invades the Campus and Workplace: Infotainment and the Copyright Cops The leading entertainment organizations have now begun targeting colleges and universities, as well as corporate America.
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