Social Issues

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

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CIO January 15, 2004 Christopher Lindquist	Security Supergroup Carnegie Mellon's CyLab combines experts into an information security powerhouse.
CIO January 15, 2004 Grant Gross	Dean Profits from Web Campaign Even if former Vermont governor Dr. Howard Dean fails to seize the Democratic nomination this summer, his use of the Internet has added a new rule for political campaigns: Make sure your candidate's website drives supporters to meet each other -- and to a "click to donate" button.
InternetNews January 15, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft to Modify XP Music Browser Override The 'Shop for Music Online' feature in Windows XP operating system will be tweaked under an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	ISPs Unite Against Spam A new group, led by Openwave, aims to develop practices and technology to slow the flow of network-choking spam.
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Last Year's Security Problems May Balloon in 2004 If 2003 was the worst year in history for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004.
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Senator Plans P2P Summit Hoping to avoid online piracy legislation, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman is pushing for technological solutions.
InternetNews January 13, 2004 Ryan Naraine	One Big Monster IE Patch Day Microsoft's January patch release is expected to include a cumulative patch to plug known vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer browser.
InternetNews January 12, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	Voters Caught Up in Political Net More than one-third of Americans have gathered political information online, chipping away at traditional media's dominance for regularly educating citizens about candidates and the campaign.
InternetNews January 12, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Buffer Overflow Plugged in Sun ONE Web Server Sun releases service pack to fix denial-of-service vulnerability.
InternetNews January 12, 2004 Janis Mara	The Marketing of Can Spam The Can Spam Act becomes the latest marketing tool for companies selling e-mail related products and services.
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