Social Issues

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

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InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Are Gaming Google's Adwords Researchers are warning of some bad actors in paid results on Google.
CIO January 21, 2009 Steff Gelston	Risk Adjusted Compensation, Data Center Budgets and the Credit Crunch, Social Spammers and More A Call to Tie Pay to Risk... House Tech Panel Outlines Priorities for '09... Credit Crunch Squeezes Data Center Budgets... etc.
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
InternetNews January 21, 2009 Judy Mottl	Tweeters Beat Out Diggers Micro-blogging site surpasses link sharing activity, Hitwise reports.
InternetNews January 21, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Cyber Thieves Hit Payment Processor Heartland Experts warn that more attacks may be to come. Observers also say the breach highlights the current state of legislation regarding disclosure when data loss hits corporations.
Wired January 19, 2009 Evan Ratliff	The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House? Turning his innovative campaign and transition into Government 2.0 won't be easy.
Wired January 19, 2009 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge After years of celebrating the information revolution, we need to focus on the countervailing force: The disinformation revolution.
Wired January 19, 2009 Steven Levy	Steven Levy on the Burden of Twitter Because of time constraints and just plain reticence, I worry that I'm snatching morsels from the information food bank without making any donations
Food Processing December 2008	How SPAM became spam The linguistic and legal intersection of a product named SPAM and the emails we love to hate.
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