Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
Index to Volume 2
Saturday, 31 May 1986

Issue 1 (1 Feb 86)
Issue 2 (1 Feb 86 )
Issue 3 (1 Feb 86)-
- The possible vs the impossible (Dave Parnas)
- RISKS generalizations (Jim Horning)
- Challenger speculation (Henry Spencer)
- Possible triggering of the self-destruct mechanism (Don Wegeng)
- Redundancy in the Shuttle's Computers (Mark S. Day)
- Galileo Plutonium power (Herb Lin)
- Icing the Shuttle (Jim McGrath)
Issue 4 (2 Feb 86 )
Issue 5 (3 Feb 86 )-
- SRBs and What the Computers Should Monitor (Sean Malloy, Charley Wingate)
- SRB survival (Bill Keefe)
- Physical Security at the Cape (Tim Wicinski)
- A hard rain is gonna fall, (Marc Vilain)
- Correction re Galileo plutonium (James Tomayko)
- Quebec Election (Dan Craigen)
- SCRIBE time-bomb goes off! (Peter G. Neumann)
Issue 6 (4 Feb 86)-
- Shuttle computers (Marc Vilain) -- from NY Times
- SRBs and Challenger (Mike Iglesias) -- from LA Times
- Galileo, Plutonium, Centaur, physical security [4 messages] (Henry Spencer)
- RISKS-2.5 & "Some simple calculations" (Bob Ayers)
- A hard rain is gonna fall. (Herb Lin)
- By the slip of a finger ... (Ted Lee)
Issue 7 (6 Feb 86)-
- The lesson of Challenger (Barry Shein)
- Mistaken Arrest due to computer error (Steve Rabin)
- Denial of [Religious] Service (Chris Guthrie)
- Earthquake Monitoring Systems (Gary T. Leavens)
- Mice & CRT Radiation (Ted Shapin)
- SRBs, What the Computers Should Monitor, and Expert Systems? (Jim Giles)
- Redundancy in the Shuttle's Computers (K. Richard Magill)
- Nuclear Cargo in the Shuttle (Larry Shilkoff)
- Software Protection Symposium (Barbara Zayas)
Issue 8 (7 Feb 86)
Issue 9 (9 Feb 86)
Issue 10 (12 Feb 86)-
- Computerized aircraft collision avoidance (Peter G. Neumann)
- Computerized Feedback and the Stock Market (Eric Nickell)
- Analyst Changes City Treasurer's Computer Code (Mike McLaughlin)
- Plutonium on the Space Shuttle (Tom Slone)
- Request to RISKS Readers from COMPASS 86 (COMPuter ASSurance) (Al Friend)
Issue 11 (16 Feb 86)
Issue 12 (18 Feb 86)-
- Risks in automobile microprocessors -- Mercedes 500SE (Peter G. Neumann)
- Train safeguards defeated (Chuck Weinstock)
- Security Safeguards for Air Force Computer Systems (Dave Platt)
- How can Alvin Frost fight City Hall? (Jim DeLaHunt)
- More Plutonium/Shuttle (Martin J. Moore)
- Computerized Voting -- talk by Eva Waskell (Wednesday eve, 19 February, MIT)
Issue 13 (20 Feb 86)
Issue 14 (24 Feb 86)
Issue 15 (25 Feb 86 )
Issue 16 (25 Feb 86 )
Issue 17 (28 Feb 86)
Issue 18 (28 Feb 86)-
- Titanic and What did I overlook? (Hal Murray)
- Titanic Effect (Jong)
- Computers placing telephone calls (Art Evans)
- Misdirected modems (Sam Kendall)
- Modems and phone numbers (David Barto)
- Misdirecting my modem (Mike McLaughlin)
- Power-outages, & other failures of central DP systems (Dave Platt)
- Computer voting booths (Dave Platt)
- Data Encryption Standard (Chris McDonald)
Issue 19 (2 Mar 86)
Issue 20 (2 Mar 86)
Issue 21 (3 Mar 86)
Issue 22 (5 Mar 86)
Issue 23 (6 Mar 86 )
Issue 24 (8 Mar 86)
Issue 25 (10 Mar 86)
Issue 26 (14 Mar 86)
Issue 27 (15 Mar 86 )-
- Overload of a different sort [Air traffic stoppage] (Ted Lee)
- Cordless Phones Cry Wolf! (Peter G. Neumann)
- The Mob Breaks into the Information Age (Mike McLaughlin)
- [Non]computerized train wreck (Mark Brader)
- Ballot Integrity; Specialization in Decision-Making (Tom Benson)
- Network Security, Integrity, and "Importance" (Kurt F. Sauer)
- Modems (James R. McGowan)
Issue 28 (17 Mar 86)
Issue 29 (17 Mar 86)-
- Commission vs. Omission (Martin J. Moore plus an example from Dave Parnas)
- A Stitch in Time (Jagan Jagannathan)
- Clockenspiel (Jim Horning)
- Cordless phones (Chris Koenigsberg)
- Money talks (Dirk Grunwald, date correction from Matthew Kruk)
- [Non]computerized train wreck (Mark Brader)
- On-line Safety Database (Ken Dymond)
Issue 30 (18 Mar 86)
Issue 31 (19 Mar 86)-
- Still more on shuttle destruct systems (Martin J. Moore)
- Clock Synchronization (Andy Mondore)
- Timestamp integrity at system startup (John Coughlin)
- Danny Cohen on SDI (Charlie Crummer)
- Two more mailer problems (Sidney Markowitz)
- Marking money for the blind (Atrocity Joelll)
- Why would anyone want to computerize voting? (Larry Campbell)
Issue 32 (20 Mar 86)-
- Om/Comm-ission, and analysis of risks (Niall Mansfield)
- RSO's and IIP's (Dave Curry)
- Complex systems ru(i|n)ning our cities (Mike Mc Namara)
- Re: Two more mailer problems (Bernard S. Greenberg)
- Banknotes for the visually handicapped (Nigel Roberts, Barbara E. Rice)
- Psychological and sociological consequences (Harald Baerenreiter)
Issue 33 (23 Mar 86)
Issue 34 (27 Mar 86)
Issue 35 (30 Mar 86)
Issue 36 (1 Apr 86)
Issue 37 (6 Apr 86)
Issue 38 (8 Apr 86)
Issue 39 (11 Apr 86)
Issue 40 (12 Apr 86)
Issue 41 (13 Apr 86)
Issue 42 (14 Apr 86)
Issue 43 (17 Apr 86)
Issue 44 (21 Apr 86)
Issue 45 (28 Apr 86)-
- HBO gets Hacked:: We Interrupt This Program ... for a Viewer Protest. (Geoff Goodfellow, Frank J. Wancho)
- Ball's contribution on Polaris and SDI (from Dave Parnas)
- SDI Reliability Testing - Offensive deterrent vs SDI (Jon Jacky)
- What are the limits to simulation? (Eugene Miya)
- Reference on admissibility of computer records (Bill Cox)
- Phone billing error at Pacific Bell, etc. (John Coughlin)
- Cracked Libya Defense (Udo Voges)
- Challenger article (Ron Minnich)
Issue 46 (29 Apr 86)
Issue 47 (1 May 86)
Issue 48 (3 May 86)
Issue 49 (7 May 86)-
- Perrow on reactor containment vessels (Richard Guy)
- Captain Midnight (Scott Dorsey, MRB)
- NSA planning new data encryption scheme - they'll keep the keys (Jon Jacky)
- Espionage (Mike McLaughlin)
- The Star Wars Swindle (Dave Weiss)
- Backups (Will Martin)
- Interpreting Satellite Pictures (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Word-processing damages expression (Niall Mansfield, PGN)
- Proofreading vs. computer-based spelling checks (Dave Platt)
Issue 50 (8 May 86)
Issue 51 (11 May 86)
Issue 52 (13 May 86)
Issue 53 (16 May 86)
Issue 54 (25 May 86 )
Issue 55 (28 May 86)-
- Culling through RISKS headers; SDI (Jim Horning)
- Blind Faith in Technology, and Caspar Weinberger (Herb Lin)
- Risks of doing software quality assurance too diligently (PGN from Chris Shaw and the Torrance Daily Breeze)
- Collegiate jungle (Mike McLaughlin)
- Decease and Desist -- Death by Computer (Deborah L. Estrin)
- The Death of the Gossamer Time Traveler (Peter G. Neumann)
- Computer Ethics (Bruce A. Sesnovich)
Issue 56 (30 May 86)-
- A joke that went wrong (Brian Randell)
- Computer Program for nuclear reactor accidents (Gary Chapman)
- On risks and knowledge (Alan Wexelblat) [Excerpt]
- Technical vs. Political in SDI (Dave Benson)
- Are SDI Software predictions biased by old tactical software? (Bob Estell)
- Culling through RISKS headers (Jim Horning)

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