Social Issues

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

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InternetNews January 19, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Get Ready for Inauguration Spam As Obama prepares to be sworn in, hackers and spammers are gearing up for a field day.
Wired January 19, 2009 Daniel Roth	The Dark Lord of Broadband Tries to Fix Comcast's Image By the end of 2007, Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, assumed that his consumer-complaint issues were behind him. They weren't.
InternetNews January 16, 2009 Judy Mottl	Social Media Steals the Show in NY Plane Crash On-the-scene photos, live reports and immediate reactions illustrate the power of sites like Twitter, fans say. But others urge caution before heaping praise on the site and its peers.
InternetNews January 16, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	What's the Mac OSX's Best Security Feature? Black Hat researchers review the state of Apple security - should Mac fanboyz be worried?
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Judy Mottl	More Adults Jump Into Social Networking But the trend remains dominated by teenagers.
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New York Plans Application Security Program Developers must straighten up and fly right if they want to do business with the Empire State.
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Web Firms, Advocates Draw Lines in Privacy Fight With reforms to the Privacy Act looming on the congressional agenda, how will Internet companies be affected?
Search Engine Watch January 14, 2009 Kevin Ryan	Tibet's Revenge There's quite a bit of controversy over things like censoring search results. Judging by the majority of the responses I received on last week's column, most of you got the humor in it.
InternetNews January 13, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Starts The Year With Modest Fix List After the madness of December, January comes in like a lamb with only one critical fix.
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