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Fast Company April 2013 Baratunde Thurston	Our Take On Terms Of Service: The Terms Of Servitude Following terms of service controversies at Instagram, Skype, and others, it is important to clarify your relationship with this column.
Information Today March 14, 2013 George H. Pike	Copyright Alert System to Warn, Then Punish, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing After months of delays, a coalition of content providers and Internet Service Providers launched the Copyright Alert System, a "six strikes" structure that will notify, then potentially punish users for illegal file sharing.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 David Kushner	The Real Story of Stuxnet How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran's nuclear-fuel enrichment program
CIO February 27, 2013 Zach Miners	Who owns that Twitter account? Social networking accounts used for both personal and work purposes raise all sorts of legal questions
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Intel Communities Wrestle With the Promise and Problems of 'Big Data' For some intelligence analysts, the glut of data coming from multiple sources is an overwhelming problem. There just aren't enough hours in the day to sift through all the potentially valuable information.
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Iran's Ability to Carry Out Attacks in Cyberspace May Be Improving The ability to carry out attacks from across the world that can do real physical or economic damage without ever launching a jet fighter or sending in suicide squads is tempting for adversaries such as Iran, U.S. officials and cybersecurity experts have pointed out.
Information Today February 4, 2013 Paula J. Hane	A Cyber War Is Brewing A cyberwar has been brewing and although you might view this battle as governments going head to head in a shadow fight, experts say the battleground is shifting from government entities to the private sector, to civilian targets that provide many essential services to U.S. citizens.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Paul McFedries	Workweek Creep Is Turning Leisure Into Weisure Social media is just the latest technological assault on our free time, and on our language
AskMen.com January 13, 2013 Ryan Nadel	Fitness Photos Fitness is defined by the belief that you can be better than yesterday, that things can change, you can be faster, fitter and stronger. It is the networked individual who sees those workout pics and thinks, "I can do that, too."
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Time for Nation to Create Cyberspace Doctrine, Military Thinkers Say A group of retired military and intelligence officials believe that now is the time for the nation to write a "cyber doctrine," which is needed to deter network attacks on the homeland.
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