Social Issues

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

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PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	How to Protect E-Mail From Prying Eyes Encrypting your messages isn't the easiest thing to do, but it will ensure your privacy.
PC World October 24, 2007 Stephen Manes	Today's Web: Use at Your Own Risk! Sites want the right to snoop on you. But just what do they promise to give you in return?
CFO November 1, 2007	Losses Jump, Spending Doesn't For the first time in years, computer crimes cost companies more money.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Robert N. Charette	Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations.
PC Magazine October 31, 2007 Lance Ulanoff	Deep-Sixing CAPTCHA The most popular challenge-response system on the Web is officially useless.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Melanie Rodier	How Are U.S. Businesses and Lawmakers Responding to Data Breaches? Nearly 77 million individuals have been affected by data breaches so far this year. But even after suffering a data breach, many businesses failed to implement encryption solutions or seek legal counsel.
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio	The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?
Wired October 23, 2007 Miyoko Ohtake	Candidates Pander to Geeks in the Webbiest Campaign Ever Online campaigning used to be a geek niche, but now just about everyone running for president is jockeying to show how socially networked, virally videoed, and blog-commented they are.
InternetNews October 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Resistance Is Futile. Buy This Stock Spammers try using MP3s to pitch a pump and dump stock. It might work if the speaker didn't scare the daylights out of you.
Search Engine Watch October 16, 2007 Greg Jarboe	Search About to Upset the Political Applecart Search engines have not eclipsed newspapers and television as the primary source of political information yet. But that day is not far off. Here are some usage stats.
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