Social Issues

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

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PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	No Such Addressee For the past month, I have been receiving e-mail with addresses similar to but not exactly mine in the To: field. Or have I?
PC Magazine October 7, 2003 Mark Hachman	Long Arm of The Law The havoc created by widespread viruses in August resulted in serious legal hardball. U.S. law enforcement agents say the arrest of the alleged author of the Blaster worm sends a message to virus writers that the federal government will prosecute similar crimes.
Knowledge@Wharton October 8, 2003	Suing Your Customers: A Winning Business Strategy? The record industry's solution to its downloading woes appears as novel as the technology it fears: launch hundreds of lawsuits against otherwise law-abiding consumers who download music. The same tactic was tried 100 years ago against Henry Ford. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Old idea retooled for security Computers have become quite powerful over the years, but they remain less than reliable. A concept widely used in mainframe computing in the '70s and '80s -- the virtual machine -- could keep computers safe and sound in the age of hackers and viruses.
CIO October 1, 2003 Art Jahnke	Should Software Vulnerabilities Be Posted Online? Readers weigh in with their opinions on this thorny issue.
CIO October 1, 2003 Gary Beach	Beware of the Telephone Most of your employees think hacks originate via a computer. According to Kevin Mitnick, they'd be wrong. Mitnick knows the weakest link in corporate infrastructure security: human beings.
CIO October 1, 2003 Lorraine Cosgrove Ware	By the Numbers It's not just what you send, it's what you store that needs encryption.
Fast Company October 2003 Linda Tischler	Joe Trippi's Killer App Howard Dean's campaign manager has used the Internet to turn an obscure ex-governor into a real presidential contender. It's anything but politics as usual. Will it work?
Fast Company October 2003 Jennifer Reingold	Harnessing the Net, One Phone at a Time. Voxiva's Paul Meyer is using telephones to bring the power of the Internet to areas that can't afford computers.
Information Today October 2003 Dick Kaser	The Day the Music Died? Whether or not this generation of music fans views their loss of innocence (with regard to the legality of song-sharing on peer-to-peer networks) as the day the music died is a subject that remains to be polled.
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