Social Issues

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

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Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003	System Alert: You've Got... Worms Was the recent spate of attacks just more of the same -- or are virus writers beginning to infect computers with other gains in mind? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere weigh in on possible motives and defenses against them.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Roger Del Russo	Securing Your Computer Network Your entire district could be brought to its knees by a hacker's assault, and the costs of reviving the network could be astronomical. While district administrators may have devised plans for securing the physical plant of the school, they rarely consider the vulnerability of their computer networks.
CIO September 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby	India to Adopt Data Privacy Rules European Union data protection rules prompted India to enact its own law mandating safeguards for data sent to India for offshore outsourcing contracts.
CFO September 1, 2003 Tim Reason	Stopping the Flow It's easier to keep hackers out of corporate computers than to keep data in.
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Konstantinos Karagiannis	Sweeping for Spies, Improved Adware, key loggers, and other spyware can send personal information about you out to the wired world, as well as make your machine run sluggishly.
PC Magazine July 16, 2003 Konstantinos Karagiannis	Free Music Services The threat of lawsuits is not turning users off from file sharing, however. In fact, it may be driving users to seek out anonymous services.
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Larry J. Seltzer	Do-It-Yourself Spam Fighting Some e-mail services provide spam filtering, but perhaps the better approach is a spam-filtering service that also gives you an e-mail account.
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Cade Metz	If It Sounds Like Spam... There's more than one way to skin a spammer.
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Sheryl Canter	Hiding Your Identity Anonymous remailers let you communicate on the Internet without exposing who you really are.
PC Magazine August 27, 2003 Ben Z. Gottesman	The Value of a Good Name A new approach in the war on spam.
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