Social Issues

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

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InternetNews January 29, 2007 Ed Sutherland	MySpace Makes Offer on Offender Database Sentinel Safe database can help law enforcement track online predators, child advocacy groups say.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Internet Explorer at Zero-Day Risk A security research firm is warning that all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are at risk from a vulnerability that could trigger a denial of service attack on end-users.
Entrepreneur February 2007 Mike Hogan	Just Browsing With upgraded browsers out, what's the safest way to navigate the net?
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 John C. Dvorak	A Threat to Web Search Google, along with the rest of us, worries about Net neutrality.
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Dangerous Downloaders Downloaders do no direct harm. Instead, they go out to other sites and download and execute more programs which can do plenty of harm.
InternetNews January 22, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	MySpace Sues 'Spam King' MySpace's CAN-SPAM lawsuit puts Scott Richter back in the news.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Parental Controls Don't Save MySpace Four families sue MySpace just one day after it implemented parental controls.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected.
ifeminists January 17, 2007 Wendy McElroy	In Child Porn Case, Technology Entraps the Innocent Your computer could be storing and distributing child pornography without your knowledge. Like ID theft in the '90s, the problem of zombie PCs is just emerging. Laws must be rewritten or repealed to take into account the technological realities with which we all live.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Jury to Phisher: You've Got Prison Time California man faces 100 years in prison for phishing scheme aimed at AOL users.
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