Social Issues

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

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InternetNews July 1, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Twitter Bug Hunt Highlights bit.ly Flaws The Month of Twitter Bugs gets rolling with the popular link-shortening service receiving the brunt of attention on its first day.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Alex Goldman	F-Secure: Adobe Still Unpatched as Attacks Rise In its quarterly threat update, security company F-Secure warned that many known vulnerabilities remain unpatched, and flaws in popular Adobe software are at the top of that list.
PC Magazine July 1, 2009 Chloe Albanesius	Obama's Cyberspace Crackdown The president lays out new online security measures.
Reason July 2009	Transparency Failure National security or secure lobbying?
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Twitter Teamwork Fargo flood friends
Reason July 2009 Nancy Rommelmann	Anatomy of a Child Pornographer What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense.
Reason July 2009 Jesse Walker	The Blurry Boundaries of Child Porn Not every illicit image is equally offensive.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.
CIO June 29, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Obama's Cybersecurity Coordinator Has Broad Agenda President Obama's review of cybernet security needs provides a long list of issues to address.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Michael Jackson Malware Has Already Hit the Net Trojans attempt to exploit the postmortem interest around the late King of Pop.
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