Social Issues

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

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InternetNews December 23, 2003 Sharon Gaudin	2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Pamela Parker	Do-Not-Spam Proves Popular Concept The majority of Americans would sign up for a do-not-spam list were the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch one, a new study has found.
InternetNews December 22, 2003 Ryan Naraine	(Sober) Mutant Starts to Squirm This mass-mailing worm comes with a German flavor and puts new PC users at higher risk.
Entrepreneur January 2004 Frank J. Ohlhorst	Hold the Fort Safeguard your networks and PCs from invasions by worms, viruses and other dangerous agents.
CIO December 15, 2003 Grant Gross	Antispam Bill Won't End Junk E-Mail CIOs are skeptical of this congressional compromise.
PC World January 2004 Stuart J. Johnston	Patch Backlash Is Microsoft doing enough to fix its security mess? We asked its users, who wonder how things got this bad in the first place.
PC World January 2004 Carla Thornton	New Phones Raise Privacy Fears Cell phones with cameras let anyone capture -- and share -- candid shots of you.
PC World January 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Laws: Bark or Bite? New antispam efforts aren't expected to end the scourge.
PC World January 2004 Scott Spanbauer	Free Antivirus: Finally Ready for Prime Time We appraise four no-cost antivirus software packages to see how they stack up against each other.
PC World January 2004 Harry McCracken	Microsoft's Security Problem -- and Ours Glitchy software turns us all into unpaid, overworked chief security officers.
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