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 3
Sunday, 2 November 1986
Volume 3 Issue 1 (4 Jun 86)-
- Unshakeable Faith in Technology (Richard A. Cowan)
- Unshakeable Faith in Technology: Shuttles & Nuclear Power (Peter G. Neumann)
- Basis for SDI Assumptions? (Doug Schuler)
- Technical vs. Political in SDI (Herb Lin)
- Computer Crime Laws (Peter G. Neumann)
- Backups for micros (Evan Dresel)
- The Clock Lies Again (PGN, Jagan Jagannathan)
Volume 3 Issue 2 (5 Jun 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 3 (6 Jun 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 4 (9 Jun 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 5 (10 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 6 (12 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 7 (13 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 8 (15 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 9 (20 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 10 (20 Jun 86)-
- Re: Privacy Legislation & Cellular Swiss Cheese (RISKS-3.8)(Geoff Goodfellow)
- Re: Privacy Legislation (RISKS-3.6) [divulging] (Dan Franklin)
- Re: Privacy Legislation (RISKS-3.6) [radar detectors] (Herb Lin)
Volume 3 Issue 11 (23 Jun 86 [mislabelled RISKS-3.12 in masthead])-
- A medical risk of computers (overdose during radiation therapy) (Jon Jacky)
- Secure computer systems (Herb Lin)
- Radar Detectors (Re: Privacy legislation in RISKS-3.10) (Jeff Makey)
- Telco Central office woes in Southfield, MI. (via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Reducing the managerial risks in SDI (Bob Estell)
- Economic Impact of SDI: Transcript Info (Richard A. Cowan)
Volume 3 Issue 12 (24 Jun 86)-
- License Plate Risks (Chuck Price)
- SDI is for ICBMs, Not Terrorists (Mark Day)
- Still another kind of clock problem (Rodney Hoffman)
- Estimating Unreported Incidents (Ken Laws)
- Estimating Unreported Incidents -- and the risks of using statistics (PGN)
- Re: Privacy legislation (RISKS-3.8) and radio eavesdropping (Jerry Mungle, Jeff Mogul, Jim Aspnes)
Volume 3 Issue 13 (26 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 14 (27 Jun 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 15 (29 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 16 (30 Jun 86)
Volume 3 Issue 17 (3 Jul 86)-
- How Much Computer Literacy Is Enough? (JAN Lee)
- Working within the system (Rich Cowan)
- Re: [Airwaves &] Security -- SDI (Herb Lin)
- Complex issues, complex answers (Bob Estell)
- Politics and Engineering Practice (Seifert)
- Multiple copies of RISKS-3.16 (Kenneth Sloan)
- GTE Sprint billing problems (Chuck Weinstock/Lee Breisacher)
Volume 3 Issue 18 (8 Jul 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 19 (10 Jul 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 20 (15 Jul 86)-
- Risks of computer incompetence (Dave Benson)
- RE: educating about RISKS (Don Lindsay)
- Computer Literacy (RISKS-3.19) (Ron Morgan) ... and Basic (Martin Minow, Andrew Klossner, PGN)
- Dial-up computing (Sterling Bjorndahl)
- Research programs that pay for themselves (Clayton Cramer)
Volume 3 Issue 21 (16 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 22 (19 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 23 (22 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 24 (24 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 25 (24 Jul 86)-
- Petroski on the Comet failures (Alan Wexelblat)
- Re: Comet and Electra (Douglas Adams)
- On the dangers of human error (Brian Randell via Lindsay Marshall)
- Software Paranoia (Ken Laws)
- Royal Wedding Risks (Lindsay Marshall)
- How to Think Creatively (John Mackin)
- Dangers of improperly protected equipment (Kevin Belles)
Volume 3 Issue 26 (26 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 27 (29 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 28 (31 Jul 86)
Volume 3 Issue 29 (1 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 30 (4 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 31 (5 Aug 86)-
- Another cruise missile lands outside Eglin test range (Martin J. Moore)
- Aircraft simulators and risks (Gary Wemmerus)
- Re: Comment on Hartford Civic Roof Design (Brad Davis)
- Expert system to catch spies (RISKS-3.30) (Chris McDonald)
- Computer and Human Security (Henry Spencer)
- Ozone Reference (Eugene Miya)
- Financial risks (Robert Stroud)
- Mail Load Light(e)ning? (SRI-CSL Mail Daemon)
Volume 3 Issue 32 (6 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 33 (7 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 34 (9 Aug 86)-
- Non-Flying Airplanes and Flying Glass (Jim Horning)
- Failure Recovery, Simulations, and Reality (Danny Cohen)
- Ottawa Power Failure (Dan Craigen)
- Liability for Software Problems (Peter G. Neumann)
- Ozone hole (Hal Perkins)
- Re: Survey of Trust in Election Computers (Chris Hibbert)
- Nondelivery of RISKS-2.38 (8 April 1986) and other mail (Communications Satellite [and PGN])
Volume 3 Issue 35 (11 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 36 (12 Aug 86)-
- Another Medical Risk? (Lee Breisacher)
- RISKy Business in Surgery (Mark Jackson)
- Reliance on word-processors discussed in the Israeli Supreme (Ady Wiernik)
- Expert Systems - The New Cop on the Beat (Laws via Fred Ostapik)
- Chernobyl (Art Evans, Dick Karpinski)
- Air Traffic Control computer failure (Dan Melson)
- Possible failures of BMD software (Herb Lin)
- A note about stories "from memory" (Henry Mensch)
Volume 3 Issue 37 (14 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 38 (17 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 39 (19 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 40 (21 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 41 (23 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 42 (25 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 43 (26 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 44 (27 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 45 (28 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 46 (30 Aug 86)
Volume 3 Issue 47 (1 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 48 (2 Sep 86)-
- Aeromexico Crash (UPI via PGN)
- Air Force puts secrets up for sale (Peter G. Neumann)
- Randi, Popoff, and Data Privacy Laws (Phil Karn via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Flight Simulators Have Faults (Gary Whisenhunt)
- On-Line with Taco Bell Telephone (John Mulhollen)
- Titanic photo expedition (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- New Zealand $1 million deposit (Dave Sherman)
- Examination Processing Error (Joe Stoy)
Volume 3 Issue 49 (4 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 50 (7 Sep 86)-
- Enlightened Traffic Management (Alan Wexelblat)
- Flight Simulator Simulators Have Faults (Dave Benson)
- Re: Flight Simulators and Software Bugs (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- Always Mount a Scratch Monkey (Art Evans)
- Re: supermarket crashes (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Machine errors - another point of view (Bob Estell)
- Human Behv. & FSM's (Robert DiCamillo)
Volume 3 Issue 51 (7 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 52 (8 Sep 86)-
- Re: F-16 software (Nancy Leveson)
- Upside-down F-16's and "Human error" (Jon Jacky)
- F-16 software (Scott E. Preece)
- Do More Faults Mean More Faults? (Ken Dymond)
- Why components DON'T interact more often (Bob Estell)
- Computer almost created swing vote (Scott E. Preece)
- Computer Sabotage [MISSING LAST LINE FROM RISKS-3.51]
- Computer Sabotage of Encyclopedia Brittanica (Scott E. Preece)
- Captain Midnight & military satellites (Werner Uhrig)
- Re: always mount a scratch monkey (Alexander Dupuy)
- Erroneous computer printout used in public debates (Chris Koenigsberg)
Volume 3 Issue 53 (10 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 54 (15 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 55 (15 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 56 (16 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 57 (16 Sep 86)-
- Computers and the Stock Market (again) (Robert Stroud)
- The Old Saw about Computers and TMI (Ken Dymond)
- Do More Faults Mean (Yet) More Faults? (Dave Benson)
- A critical real-time application worked the first time (Dave Benson)
- Autonomous weapons (Eugene Miya)
- "Unreasonable behavior" and software (Eugene Miya on Gary Chapman)
- Risks of maintaining computer timestamps revisited (John Coughlin)
Volume 3 Issue 58 (17 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 59 (20 Sep 86)-
- Computers and Wall Street (Robert Stroud)
- Report from the Computerized Voting Symposium (Kurt Hyde)
- Computers, TMI, Chernobyl, and professional licensing (Martin Harriman)
- Failsafe software (Martin Ewing)
- Software vs. Mechanical Interlocks (Andy Freeman)
- How Not to Protect Communications (Geoff Goodfellow)
Volume 3 Issue 60 (20 Sep 86)-
- Sanity checks (Roy Smith)
- Viking Flight Software working the `first' time? (Greg Earle)
- A million lines of code works the first time? (Anonymous, Dave Benson, Herb Lin)
- Re: Massive UNIX breakins at Stanford (Scott E. Preece)
- Re: Protection of personal information (Andy Mondore, Herb Lin)
- Announcement of Berkeley Conference on the SDI (Eric Roberts)
Volume 3 Issue 61 (21 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 62 (22 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 63 (24 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 64 (24 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 65 (24 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 66 (25 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 67 (25 Sep 86)-
- Old GAO Report on Medical Device Software (Chuck Youman)
- Re: Stanford breakin, RISKS-3.62 DIGEST (Darrel VanBuer)
- Re: Passwords and the Stanford break-in (RISKS-3.61) (Dave Sherman)
- Re: role of simulation - combat simulation for sale (Jon Jacky)
- MIT Symposium on economic impact of military spending (Richard Cowan)
- "Friendly" missiles and computer error -- more on the Exocet (Rob MacLachlan)
Volume 3 Issue 68 (26 Sep 86)-
- VDU risks -- Government changes its mind, perhaps (Stephen Page)
- "Drive by wire" systems (Charles R. Fry)
- Viking Landers worked the first time and met the specs (Dave Benson)
- Unix breakins - secure networks (David C. Stewart)
- Comment on the reaction to Brian's Breakin Tale (Dave Taylor)
- Reliability, complexity, and confidence in SDI software (Bob Estell)
Volume 3 Issue 69 (28 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 70 (29 Sep 86)
Volume 3 Issue 71 (30 Sep 86)-
- Deliberate overrides? (Herb Lin, Alan M. Marcum, Eugene Miya)
- "Friendly" missiles and computer error - more on the Exocet (Robert Stroud)
- Re: Reliability, complexity, and confidence in SDI (Michal Young)
- My understanding of "path" and "bathtub curve" (Bob Estell)
- More artificial than intelligent? (Autokeywords) (Bob Estell)
- A Viking lander query (PGN)
- Note on ARPANET congestion (Nancy Cassidy)
- Indeed, the network is getting old (Jonathan Young)
Volume 3 Issue 72 (1 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 73 (2 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 74 (3 Oct 86)-
- Opinions vs. Facts in RISKS Reports (re Aviation Accidents) (Danny Cohen)
- Mathematical checking of programs (quoting Tony Hoare) (Niall Mansfield)
- Risks of maintaining computer timestamps revisited [RISKS-3.57] (Ian Davis)
- Keyword indexing in automated catalogs (Betsy Hanes Perry)
- Re: Viking Landers -- correction (Scott Preece)
- Re: Confidence in software via fault expectations (Scott Preece)
- Overrides and tradeoffs (Jerry Leichter)
- Re: Deliberate overrides (Brint Cooper)
- Re: idiot-proof cars (risks-3.68) (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Volume 3 Issue 75 (4 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 76 (5 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 77 (8 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 78 (9 Oct 86)-
- On models, methods, and results (Bob Estell)
- Fault tolerance vs. verification experiments (Nancy Leveson)
- The second Tomahawk failure (PGNeumann)
- Re: Overrides and tradeoffs (Eugene Miya, Herb Lin)
- Software getting old (Ady Wiernik)
- Rebuttal -- Software CAN Wear Out! (George Cole)
- "Obsolescence" and "wearing out" as software terms (Dave Benson)
- Obsolesence and maintenance - interesting non-software anecdote (Jon Jacky)
- FAA - Plans to replace unused computers with new ones ( McCullough)
Volume 3 Issue 79 (12 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 80 (15 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 81 (19 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 82 (20 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 83 (21 Oct 86)-
- Risks from Expert Articles (David Parnas, Herb Lin, Andy Freeman)
- Loss of Nuclear Submarine Scorpion (Donald W. Coley)
- Staffing Nuclear Submarines (Martin Minow)
- An SDI Debate from the Past (Ken Dymond)
- System effectiveness is non-linear (Dave Benson)
- Stealth vs Air Traffic Control (Schuster via Herb Lin)
- Missing engines & volcano alarms (Martin Ewing)
Volume 3 Issue 84 (22 Oct 86)-
- Risks of using an automatic dialer (Bill Keefe)
- Re: Missing engines & volcano alarms (Eugene Miya)
- False premise ==> untrustworthy conclusions (Martin Harriman)
- USN Automated Reactors (Dan C Duval)
- Keep It Simple as applied to commercial nuclear power generation (Martin Harriman)
- Works as Documented (Martin Minow)
- Re: Editorial on SDI (Michael L. Scott)
- Risks from Expert Articles (Herb Lin)
- Stealth vs. ATC / SDI Impossibility? / Missing Engines ? (Douglas Humphrey)
Volume 3 Issue 85 (23 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 86 (26 Oct 86 )
Volume 3 Issue 87 (26 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 88 (27 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 89 (28 Oct 86)
Volume 3 Issue 90 (30 Oct 86)-
- Anti Skid Brakes (Paul Schauble)
- The Mother's Day Myth, and "Old Reliable" (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Collision avoidance systems (John Larson)
- Crime and punishment (Peter Ladkin)
- Air Canada (Matthew Kruk)
- (Voting) Machine Politics (Mike McLaughlin)
- Computer RISKS in "Ticker-Tape Parades" (PGN)
- SDI vs. Social Security (Scott Guthery)
- SDI Impossibility? (Scott Dorsey)
- Feeping Creaturism (Charley Wingate)
Volume 3 Issue 91 (30 Oct 86)

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