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 4
Saturday, 6 June 1987
Volume 4 Issue 1 (2 Nov 86)- Volume 4 Issue 2 (2 Nov 86)
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- Insurgent Squirrel Joins No-Ways Arc (Ross McKenrick)
- Collision avoidance systems - FAA vs. Honeywell (Charlie Hurd)
- The Military and Automatic Humans (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Assessing system effectiveness (Scott E. Preece)
- Computers in elections (Kurt Hyde)
- 17th FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM (Flaviu Cristian)
- Volume 4 Issue 3 (3 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 4 (4 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 5 (5 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 6 (6 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 7 (7 Nov 86)
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- Risks of RISKS (PGN)
- Details on the British Air Traffic Control computer outage (from Herb Hecht)
- Re: UK computer security audit (Robert Stroud)
- USS Liberty (Matthew P Wiener)
- Grassroots sneak attack on NSA (Matthew P Wiener)
- A variation of the Stanford breakin method (Arno Diehl)
- Re: Subject: Computers and Medical Charts (Roy Smith)
- DDN Net breakdown (?) on 6 Nov 86? (Will Martin)
- Re: Linguistic decay (Matthew P Wiener)
- Mechanical Aids to Writing (Earl Boebert)
- Volume 4 Issue 8 (9 Nov 86)
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- Brazilian laws require proof of voting. People NEED those cards. (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Grassroots sneak attack on NSA (Herb Lin, Matthew P Wiener)
- Ethernet Security Risks (Phil Ngai)
- Perfection (Herb Lin)
- Information replacing knowledge (Daniel G. Rabe)
- Word Processors / The Future of English (Stephen Page)
- Copyrights; passwords; medical information (Matthew P Wiener)
- Volume 4 Issue 9 (10 Nov 86)
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- Risk of aging (Lee F. Breisacher)
- Re: UK computer security audit (Henry Spencer)
- Lost files (Norman Yusol)
- Canard!! [Looping Mailers] (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Friend-foe identification (Henry Spencer)
- Micros in Car Engines (Jed Sutherland)
- Information replacing knowledge (Bard Bloom, Herb Lin, Jerry Saltzer)
- Spelling becoming obsolete? (Ted Lee)
- They almost got me! [A motor-vehicle database saga] (Mark Hittinger)
- Volume 4 Issue 10 (12 Nov 86)
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- Extreme computer risks in British business (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Alabama election snafu caused by programmer (PGN)
- Looping mailer strikes again (Brian Reid, Nancy Leveson)
- Lost files on Bitnet (Niall Mansfield)
- VOA car testing (Bill Janssen)
- Re: Aftermath of the Big Bang (apology) (Robert Stroud)
- Re: The Future of English (T. H. Crowley [both of them])
- Word-processors Not a Risk (Ralph Johnson)
- Volume 4 Issue 11 (14 Nov 86)
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- Computers don't kill people, people kill people (Howard Israel)
- Open microphone in the sky (Bob Parnass)
- Computerized Voting in Texas (Jerry Leichter)
- Problems with HNN (Alan Wexelblat)
- Post-hacker-era computer crime (Talk by Sandy Sherizen)
- Re: They almost got me! [A motor-vehicle database saga] (Doug Hardie)
- Re: information replacing knowledge (G.L. Sicherman)
- Volume 4 Issue 12 (16 Nov 86)
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- Air Traffic Control radar problems
- Stuck Microphone and Near-Collision of 727s
- Gwinnett County Voting (Scott Dorsey)
- Micros in cars (Paul Kalapathy)
- DMV computer networks (Bob Campbell)
- Serious security bug in 3.4 (Dave Martindale)
- "Maj. Doug Hardie" and his story (Bruce Schuck)
- Necessity of language skills (Daniel G. Rabe)
- Call for Papers -- Safety and Reliability Society Symposium (Nancy Leveson)
- Volume 4 Issue 13 (18 Nov 86)
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- Framing of life-and-death situations (Jim Horning)
- On placing the blame (Peter J. Denning)
- Computer picks wife (Matthew Kruk)
- Re: Micros in cars (Brint Cooper)
- Re: They almost got me! (Will Martin)
- Re: A variation of the Stanford breakin method (Joe Pistritto)
- Microfiched income-tax records stolen (John Coughlin)
- Re: Copyrights (Andrew Klossner)
- Volume 4 Issue 14 (19 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 15 (20 Nov 86)
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- IBM VM/SP SP Cracked (Jack Shaw)
- On placing the blame AND Safety-Critical UK Software (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- On placing the blame (Scot Wilcoxon)
- Safety-Critical Software in the UK (Scott E. Preece)
- Computer-based stock trading (from Discover)
- FAA's Role in Developing a Mid-Air Collision-Avoidance System (Chuck Youman)
- Volume 4 Issue 16 (22 Nov 86)
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- Banking machine almost ruins love life of Vancouver couple (Mark Brader)
- 2+2= ? (Risks of self-testing, especially with nonexistent tests) (Lindsay)
- Re: Computer-based stock trading (Roger Mann)
- Re: appendix to ACARD report (Nancy Leveson)
- Some further thoughts on the UK software-certification proposals (Dave Platt)
- Dependable Computing and the ACM Communications (PGN)
- Volume 4 Issue 17 (24 Nov 86)
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- Computer Risks and the Audi 5000 (Howard Israel with excerpts from Brint Cooper, Charlie Hurd, Clive Dawson)
- Risks of changing Air Traffic Control software? (Greg Earle)
- Re: the UK Software-Verification Proposal (Bard Bloom)
- Program Trading (Howard Israel, Eric Nickell, dmc)
- Decision Making (Clive Dawson)
- Volume 4 Issue 18 (26 Nov 86)
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- RISKS, computer-relevance, where-to-place-the-blame, etc. (PGN)
- Verification and the UK proposal (Jim Horning)
- When the going gets tough, the tough use the phone... (Jerry Leichter)
- Re: 60 minutes reporting on the Audi 5000 (Eugene Miya)
- Minireviews of Challenger article and computerized-roulette book (Martin Minow)
- More on the UK Software-Verification Proposal (Bill Janssen)
- Volume 4 Issue 19 (26 Nov 86)
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- Very Brief Comments on the Current Issues (Kim Collins)
- The Audi discussion is relevant (Hal Murray)
- Audi 5000 (Roy Smith)
- Laser-printer health risks; also, how to get ACARD report (Jonathan Bowen)
- Data point on error rate in large systems (Hal Murray)
- Re: Program Trading (Roger Mann)
- Technical merits of SDI (from Richard Scribner)
- Volume 4 Issue 20 (30 Nov 86)
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- Smart metals (Steven H. Gutfreund)
- Risks of having -- or not having -- records of telephone calls
- Audi and 60 Minutes (Mark S. Brader)
- Audi 5000/Micros in cars and the Mazda RX7 (Peter Stokes)
- Automated trading (Scott Dorsey)
- "Borrowed" Canadian tax records; Security of medical records (Mark S. Brader)
- Volume 4 Issue 21 (30 Nov 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 22 (2 Dec 86)
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- More Air Traffic Control Near-Collisions (PGN)
- Re: satellite interference (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- "Welcome to the .......... system": An invitation? (Bruce N. Baker)
- Replicability; econometrics (Charles Hedrick)
- Re: Risks of computer modeling (John Gilmore)
- Computerized weather models (Amos Shapir)
- Active control of skyscrapers (Warwick Bolam)
- Privacy in the office (Paul Czarnecki)
- Kremlin is purging dimwitted scientists (Matthew P Wiener; also in ARMS-D)
- Volume 4 Issue 23 (3 Dec 86)
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- The persistence of memory [and customs officials] (Richard V. Clayton)
- America's Cup - floppies held to ransom (Computing Australia via Derek)
- Some thoughts regarding recent postings: blame and causality (Eugene Miya)
- Microcomputer controlled cars (not Audi) (Miriam Nadel)
- Re: Welcome to the system (Ronda Henning)
- Re: Automated trading (Scott Dorsey)
- Active control of skyscrapers (Herb Lin)
- Volume 4 Issue 24 (5 Dec 86)
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- Criminal Encryption & Long Term effects (Baxter)
- Criminals and encryption (Phil Karn)
- Re: ATC Near-Collisions (Rony Shapiro)
- High Availability Systems (PGN)
- Plug-compatible modules (PGN)
- "Satellite interference" (Lauren Weinstein)
- Re: Privacy in the office (Brint Cooper)
- ACARD Report (Samuel B. Bassett)
- Volume 4 Issue 25 (7 Dec 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 26 (10 Dec 86)
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- Computer Error Endangers Hardware (Nancy I. Garman)
- "One of the Worst Days Ever for Muni Metro, BART" (PGN)
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (Steve Jong)
- Plug Compatible Modules; Criminal Encryption (David Fetrow)
- More on skyscraper control (Mike Ekberg)
- Satellite interference (James D. Carlson)
- (Il)legal Encryption (Richard Outerbridge)
- Software article in _Computer Design_ (Walt Thode)
- Heavy metal and light algorithms (PGN)
- Suit against Lotus dropped (Bill Sommerfeld)
- Volume 4 Issue 27 (11 Dec 86)
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- Computerised Discrimination (Brian Randell)
- Belgian Paper transcends computer breakdown (Martin Minow)
- Re: Plug-compatible modules (Keith F. Lynch)
- Re: Criminal Encryption (Keith F. Lynch, Ira D. Baxter, Dave Platt)
- Re: More on skyscraper control (Brint Cooper)
- The Second Labor of Hercules (Dave Benson)
- Volume 4 Issue 28 (12 Dec 86)
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- Mount a scratch giraffe, too? Make that several. (Jim Horning)
- Elf debuts as parking attendant (Kevin B. Kenny)
- Plug-compatible plugs (Chris Koenigsberg, Henry Schaffer)
- An Amusing Article on the Taxonomy of "Bugs" (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Satellite interference (Lauren Weinstein)
- Fast-food computers (Scott Guthery)
- Re: More on skyscraper control (Chuck Kennedy)
- Re: Risks of Computer Modeling (Craig Paxton)
- Re: Computerized Discrimination (Randall Davis)
- Computers and Educational Decrepitude (Geof Cooper)
- Symposium -- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (Jon Jacky)
- Volume 4 Issue 29 (14 Dec 86)
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- America's Cup: Left-over Digital Filter (Bruce Wampler)
- Some additions to the "bug" taxonomy (Dick King)
- Re: uninterruptible power (Ted Lee)
- Trade-offs between BMD architecture and software tractability (Herb Lin)
- Re: Criminal encryption (Garry Wiegand)
- Computerised Discrimination (Scott Preece)
- More on Incompatible Plug-Compatible Monitors (Al Stangenberger)
- Volume 4 Issue 30 (16 Dec 86)
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- Arpanet outage (Andrew Malis)
- Dynamic Signature Verification (Robert Stroud [and Brian Randell])
- Wobbly skyscrapers and passive vs. active controls (Niall Mansfield)
- Re: The Audi 5000 problems (Matt Smiley)
- Modifying bank cards (Rodney Hoffman)
- Credit card mag strips (Ted Marshall)
- Fast-Food Computing (Edward Vielmetti)
- "bugs" (Doug McIlroy, Jonathan Clark, Bob Estell)
- Volume 4 Issue 31 (17 Dec 86)
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- Don't sit too close! ("And Now, Exploding Computers") (Jerry Leichter)
- Car-stress syndrome (Robert D. Houk)
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (Niall Mansfield)
- Heisenbugs (Rob Austein [an example], Doug Landauer)
- Criminal Encryption (Bill Gunshannon [counterexample?])
- Taking the "con" out of econometrics... correction and a plea (Mike Williams)
- Volume 4 Issue 32 (18 Dec 86)
- Volume 4 Issue 33 (21 Dec 86)
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- Help British Telecom save a WORM. (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Security of magnetic-stripe cards (Brian Reid)
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (Dick King)
- Car-stress syndrome (Dick King)
- Bugs called cockroaches [A True Fable For Our Times] (anonymous)
- Re: More on car computers (not Audi) (Miriam Nadel)
- Runaway Audi 5000 (John O. Rutemiller)
- Volume 4 Issue 34 (23 Dec 86)
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- Debit cards that don't (Edward M. Embick, PGN)
- Re: security of magnetic-stripe cards (Henry Spencer)
- Plug-compatible plugs (Henry Spencer)
- Runaway Audi 5000 (Mark Brader)
- Ozone layer (Mark Brader)
- Another heisenbug (Zhahai Stewart)
- More "bugs" (Tom Parmenter via Richard Lamson)
- Computer Malpractice (Dave Platt)
- Financial Servomechanisms (Brian Randell)
- Volume 4 Issue 35 (3 Jan 87)
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- Computer Gets Stage Fright (Chuck Youman)
- Still More on PhoneCards (PGN)
- Miscarriages Up in Women Exposed In Computer-Chip Process (Martin Minow)
- Across the Atlantic with Cast Iron (Earl Boebert)
- Heisenbugs -- Two more examples (Maj. Doug Hardie)
- Risks Involved in Campus Network-building (Rich Kulawiec)
- Update on Swedish Vulnerability Board Report (Martin Minow)
- DES cracked? (Dave Platt)
- Volume 4 Issue 36 (6 Jan 87)
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- A Heisenbug Example from the SIFT Computer (Jack Goldberg)
- More Heisen-debugs (Don Lindsay)
- The Conrail train wreck (PGN)
- Software glitches in high-tech defense systems (from Michael Melliar-Smith)
- Computer program zeroes out fifth grader; Computerized gift-wrap (Ed Reid)
- Videocypher, DES (Jerry Leichter)
- More on the possible DES crack (David Platt)
- Campus LANs (James D. Carlson, Don Wegeng, Henry Spencer)
- Engineering Ethics (Chuck Youman)
- Volume 4 Issue 37 (7 Jan 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 38 (8 Jan 87)
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- As the year turns ... (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Automobile micros (Hal Murray)
- Chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing (Michael Scott)
- Cellular -- Ref to Geoff (via PGN)
- "Misinformation"?? (Dick Karpinski)
- Burnham Book -- A Recommendation (Alan Wexelblat)
- Engineering Ethics (Dan Ball)
- Re: Stock Market Volatility (Richard A. Cowan)
- Volume 4 Issue 39 (11 Jan 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 40 (14 Jan 87)
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- Phone Cards (Brian Randell)
- It's No Joke!! (Microwave oven bakes 3 yrs of PC data) (Lindsay Marshall)
- Automation bottoms out (PGN)
- Amtrak train crash with Conrail freight locomotive -- more (PGN)
- Re: Cellular risks (Robert Frankston)
- Re: Ask not for whom the chimes tinkle (Tom Perrine via Kurt Sauer)
- Re: Engineering ethics (PGN)
- Repetitive Strain Injury and VDTs (Mark Jackson)
- Safety Officers and "Oversight" (Henry Spencer)
- Volume 4 Issue 41 (19 Jan 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 42 (23 Jan 87)
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- A scary tale--Sperry avionics module testing bites the dust? (Nancy Leveson)
- Computer gotcha (Dave Emery)
- Re: Another Bank Card Horror Story (Robert Frankston)
- Stock Market behavior (Howard Israel, Gary Kremen)
- Engineering models applied to systems (Alan Wexelblat)
- Re: British EFT note (Alan Wexelblat)
- Train Wreck Inquiry (Risks 2.9) (Matthew Kruk)
- Cost-benefit analyses and automobile recalls (John Chambers)
- Volume 4 Issue 43 (26 Jan 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 44 (29 Jan 87)
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- Air Traffic Control -- More Mid-Air Collisions and Prevention (PGN)
- Time warp for Honeywell CP-6 sites (P. Higgins)
- GM On-Board Computers (Martin Harriman)
- Loose coupling (Ephraim Vishniac)
- Units RISKS and also a book to read (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: Unit conversion errors (Alan M. Marcum, Keith F. Lynch)
- DP Ethics: The "Stanley House" Criteria (Pete McVay)
- Volume 4 Issue 45 (2 Feb 87)
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- DATE-86, or The Ghost of Tinkles Past (Rob Austein)
- Computerised Discrimination (an update) (Brian Randell)
- Another non-malfunctioning alarm (Jeffrey Thomas)
- Re: Engineering models applied to systems, RISKS-4.42 (Joseph S. D. Yao)
- Re: A scary tale--Sperry avionics module testing bites the dust? (D.W. James)
- Volume 4 Issue 46 (9 Feb 87)
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- TV-program on PBS: NOVA - Why Planes Crash (Werner Uhrig, Michael Harris)
- Electronic steering (Steve McLafferty)
- Senior to Repay Bank 25,000 Dollars (Steve Thompson)
- Recursive risks in computer design (McCullough)
- Library Failure (Chuck Weinstock)
- CP-6 time warp update (the true story) (John Joseph via Paul Higgins)
- Glitch in the Computers and Society Digest mailing list... (Dave Taylor)
- More on British Phone fraud (Will Martin)
- Wall Street Journal article on Risks (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Volume 4 Issue 47 (16 Feb 87)
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- The fielding is mutuel! (PGN)
- Another worm story (Dave Platt)
- Re: The student's extra $25,000 (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Problems with the B-1B Bomber (Bill McGarry)
- Super-Smart Cards Are Here. (Leo Schwab)
- Iranamok Computer-Databased (Craig Milo Rogers)
- Re: electronic steering (Tom Adams, Amos Shapir)
- Re: Nova: Why Planes Crash (Alan M. Marcum)
- Re: Library computerization (Will Martin)
- Second British Telecom Fraud (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Volume 4 Issue 48 (18 Feb 87)
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- Four near air misses in 1986; Radar failure (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Computer failure causes flight delays (Rodney Hoffman)
- Real RISKS (as opposed to virtual risks) of aircraft (Eugene Miya)
- Trojan Horse alert (Al Stangenberger)
- Computerized Town Data Vanish (Jerry Leichter)
- Re: UCSD work on human error (Alexander Glockner)
- Connector risk (Rob Horn)
- Re: Electronic steering (Brint Cooper)
- Volume 4 Issue 49 (22 Feb 87)
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- A misplaced report (Danny Cohen)
- Relevance (Amos Shapir)
- Re: London ATC (Jonathan Clark)
- Disk space cleanup causes problems with on-line Bar Admission exam (David Sherman)
- Automatic Call Tracing for Emergency Services (Mark Jackson)
- Re: The student's extra $25,000 (Kee Hinckley)
- Re: Electronic steering (Hien B. Tang)
- Re: TV-program on PBS: NOVA - Why Planes Crash (Henry Spencer)
- Re: RJ (phone) connectors for terminals (Jordan Brown)
- Volume 4 Issue 50 (23 Feb 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 51 (25 Feb 87)
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- HiTech version of NixonTapes (Pete Lee)
- Re: Automatic Call Tracing for Emergency Services (Lee Naish)
- Air Traffic Control, Auto-Land (Matthew Machlis)
- Electronic steering (Spencer W. Thomas, excerpt from William Swan)
- Hurricane Iwa and the Hawaii blackout of 1984 (James Burke via Matthew P Wiener)
- Summary of a Talk by SANFORD (SANDY) SHERIZEN on Computer Crime (Eugene Miya)
- Volume 4 Issue 52 (26 Feb 87)
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- B-1 plagued by problems (PGN)
- Computer loses bus (Mark Biggar)
- Human errors (Brian Randell)
- Possessed terminal? (pom)
- Entertainment risks (Walt Thode)
- Automatic Call Tracing for Emergency Services (James Roche, Charley Wingate)
- "Active" car suspensions (Graeme Dixon)
- Altitude-Detecting Radar (Matthew Machlis)
- Re: Results of a recent security review (Andrew Klossner)
- Re: Sherizen talk; auto-landing (Eugene Miya)
- Air Traffic Control, Auto-Land (Scott E. Preece)
- Risks of autopilots (and risks of solutions) (Bill Janssen)
- Another difference between electronic control in cars and fighters (Brent Chapman)
- Re: Hurricane Iwa (Scott Dorsey)
- Volume 4 Issue 53 (1 Mar 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 54 (2 Mar 87)
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- Rockford Illinois Destroyed by Computer! (Chuck Weinstock)
- Ma Bell's Daughter Does Dallas (PGN)
- FAA Does Houston (PGN)
- Tempest Puget, or The Sound and the Ferries (PGN)
- Re: proper use of suid (Jef Poskanzer)
- Process Control (Chuck Weinstock)
- Risks in switching to computerized `people meters' (Bill Janssen)
- A lovely algorithm (Lindsay)
- Volume 4 Issue 55 (3 Mar 87)
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- Air Cargo system in chaos (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- ATM Cards Devoured (again!); Royal Shakedowne for Tickets (Robert Stroud)
- Re: Risks in the NSC computer archives (Carlton Hommel)
- Re: A Scary Tale--Sperry Avionics ... (Kevin Driscoll)
- Re: Altitude encoders: $1500 for Mode C? No, $750. (Jordan Brown)
- One more on fly/steer-by-wire (Jonathan Clark)
- Steer-by-wire cars (Doug Rudoff)
- Software Safety in ACM Computing Surveys (Daniel S. Conde)
- Computerized `people meters' for TV audience ratings (Niall Mansfield)
- More on Dallas Phone outage (Mark Linnig)
- Soliciting suggestions for 1988 CSC panel on liability (Gene Spofford)
- Conference on computing and society in Seattle -- REMINDER (Jon Jacky)
- Volume 4 Issue 56 (5 Mar 87)
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- Computer problems produce false weather warnings (Mike Linnig)
- Some postscript notes about Hurricane Iwa (Bob Cunningham)
- Tempest Puget (Bill Roman)
- Computer Aided Dispatching (James Roche)
- Teflon flywheels and safe software (Hal Guthery)
- Autoland and Conflict Alert (Alan M. Marcum)
- Re: Air Traffic Control, Auto-Land (Amos Shapir)
- Re: An aside on the B-1 (Henry Spencer)
- Plane Crashes (David Purdue)
- In defense of drive-by-wire (Mike McLaughlin)
- Volume 4 Issue 57 (6 Mar 87)
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- Re: Air Traffic Control, Auto-Land (David Redell)
- 911, drive-fly by wire, risks, and the American work ethic (Wes Williams)
- Re: drive by wire (Bennett Todd)
- Autoland (Peter Ladkin)
- Re: Puget Sound Ferry Boats (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- Credit Card Limits (Clive Dawson)
- NSA Monitored McFarlane House, Magazine Reports (Don Hopkins)
- Volume 4 Issue 58 (8 Mar 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 59 (8 Mar 87)
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- Safe software (Geraint Jones)
- Computer Problem causes airline financial loss (Rob Horn)
- Re: Altitude Encoders... expensive for some (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Influence of goal selection on safety (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Puget Sound Ferry Boats (Dennis Anderson, Robert Frankston, Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- GOES satellites, Scotchbrite, Gnomic Maxims, and Mr. Bill (Martin Harriman)
- Spreadsheet budget helping legislators (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Volume 4 Issue 60 (9 Mar 87)
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- Feel better now? (Martin Minow) [Risk probabilities in nuclear power]
- Computers in the Arts (or The Show Must Go On ...) (Jeannette Wing)
- Sensitive Intelligence Document Published On Magazine Cover(Stevan Milunovic)
- Mode-C Transponders (Phil R. Karn)
- Physical risks and software risks (Eugene Miya)
- Safe software (Scott E. Preece)
- Helicopter rotor failures (Peter Ladkin)
- Re: Electronic steering (D. V. W. James)
- Altitude Encoders... expensive for some (Herb Lin)
- F-104 (Elliott S. Frank)
- Volume 4 Issue 61 (10 Mar 87)
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- More on human errors (Brian Randell)
- Re: Teflon flywheels and safe software (Brian Randell)
- Re: Computers in the Arts (Alan Wexelblat, Jeffrey R Kell)
- Local telephone service problems (Jonathan Thornburg)
- Computer Failure Delays Flights at Atlanta Airport (PGN)
- Ozone hole a false alarm? (Henry Spencer)
- More on Requiring Mode C transponders (John Allred, Ken Calvert)
- Volume 4 Issue 62 (11 Mar 87)
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- "Software Safety: What, Why, and How" (Minireview by Jim Horning)
- Beef with Restaurant's Hi-Tech Computer (Yigal Arens)
- Electronic Steering (Mike Brown)
- Enhanced 911 risks (Mike Brown)
- Computers in the arts (Don Craig, Glenn Trewitt)
- Mode C (Ken Calvert)
- Re: Plane Crashes (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Re: Results of a recent security review (Arnold D. Robbins)
- Risks of Maintaining RISKS -- and a reminder for BITNET readers (PGN)
- Volume 4 Issue 63 (12 Mar 87)
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- Re: Teflon flywheels and safe software (Al Mok)
- Re: Electronic Steering (Bob Ayers)
- Inputs For Quantitative Risk Assessment (Hal Guthery)
- Re: Active car suspension (Geof Cooper)
- Ozone hole a false alarm? (Mark Brader)
- Phone problems (RISKs in auto-dialers) (David Barto)
- Re: Mode C Transponders (Jan Wolitzky)
- Automatic Landing Systems (Hugh LaMaster)
- F-111 Losses (Rob Fowler)
- Re: Computers in the Arts (Computer lighting) (Shannon Nelson)
- Volume 4 Issue 64 (16 Mar 87)
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- Computer-lighting board nearly causes WWIII (Brent Laminack)
- Computerized telephone sales pitch meets emergency broadcast number (Brent Laminack)
- Furniture risks -- Vanishing Diskettes (Lee Breisacher)
- Reprise on the UK Government's ACARD Report (Brian Randell)
- Last minute changes (Roy Smith)
- Risk in ``High'' Financing (Michael Wester)
- Risk at Crown Books (Scott R. Turner)
- Human errors in computer systems -- another reference (Jack Goldberg)
- Requests for War Stories in Scientific Programming (Dennis Stevenson)
- TFR and F-111s (Eugene Miya)
- An Open University Text Book (Brian Randell)
- US NEWS article on 'Smart' Weapons - questions and concerns (Jon Jacky)
- Volume 4 Issue 65 (19 Mar 87)
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- Largest computer crime loss in history? (Gary Kremen)
- Health hazards of poorly placed CRT screens (Gregory Sandell)
- Re: Computerized telephone sales pitch ... (Robert Frankston)
- Re: phone key-pad speed vs accuracy (Andrew Klossner)
- ATM experience (Joe Herman)
- Computerized Telemarketing (Rob Aitken)
- Submission impossible? (PGN)
- Risk at Crown Books (Christopher Garrigues)
- Altitude Encoders... expensive for some (Herb Lin)
- RTD Ghost Story: a Phantom Warehouse (Eric Nickell)
- Volume 4 Issue 66 (22 Mar 87)
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- Question for Risks Readers on Overcoming Information Overload with Technology (Dave Taylor)
- Fumes from PC's (Lauren Weinstein)
- Re: health hazards of poorly placed CRT screens (Brinton Cooper)
- How to lose your ATM card (Jan Kok)
- Re: ATM experience (Bruce McKenney)
- Re: Increased Telephone Switching Capabilities (Dan Graifer)
- Releasing the phone line (edg)
- Automatic dialing devices in Canada (Michael Wagner)
- Overconfidence in Airplane Computers? (Ted Lee)
- Volume 4 Issue 67 (24 Mar 87)
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- Winch is the greatest risk in a theater? (Dave Wortman)
- DC9 Computer Failure (Earl Boebert)
- Health hazards associated with VDU use: eyestrain (John J. Mackin)
- Who called? (Jerome M Lang)
- Car Phone Intercept -- implications of captured data (Alex Dickinson)
- Re: Increased Telephone Switching Capabilities (Michael Wagner)
- Re: Telephone switches (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- Re: ATM experience (Roy Smith)
- Risks of ATM machines (Mike Linnig)
- Bank troubles, M.E. magazine (David Chase)
- Re: "The Choking Doberman..." (Elliott S. Frank)
- Newspaper article on Audi 5000S (Mark Brader)
- Volume 4 Issue 68 (26 Mar 87)
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- Re: Health hazards associated with VDU use: eyestrain (Barry Gold) ... and fluorescents (Re: RISKS-4.67) (Brad Davis) ... and related injuries (Jeremy Grodberg)
- Conference on Computers and Law (David G. Cantor)
- Re: runaway motors (Don Lindsay)
- The social implications of inadvertent broadcasts (Donn Seeley)
- Re: Increased Telephone Switching Capabilities (Andrew Klossner)
- Re: phone number of caller (Don Lindsay, Jeremy Grodberg)
- Hang-ups (Paul Wilcox-Baker)
- Volume 4 Issue 69 (27 Mar 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 70 (1 Apr 87)
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- Rocket Shot Down By Faulty ``Star Wars'' Weapon (Phil R. Karn)
- ATMs, phones, health hazards, and other sundry subjects (PGN)
- Computer Risks in Theatre (Warwick Bolam)
- PC fumes (Dick King)
- A real eye-catching headline (David Chase)
- Risks of being fuzzy-minded (Ted Lee)
- ATM discussions (gins)
- Re: ATM experience ... it actually gets worse (Allen Brown)
- Volume 4 Issue 71 (5 Apr 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 72 (8 Apr 87)
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- New kind of computer-technology-related deaths? (PGN)
- Conrail Sale Funds Transfer (Chuck Weinstock)
- Re: "Inherently safe nuclear reactors" (Phil Ngai)
- A different RISK? (in-flight control computers) (Peter Ladkin)
- Fumes from computers and other electronic appliances (Mark W. Eichin)
- VDT related skin cancer? (Chris Koenigsberg)
- Volume 4 Issue 73 (11 Apr 87)
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- Unintentional information dissemination (George W. Dinolt)
- Computers & Personal Privacy (Steve Thompson)
- Air Traffic Control in the UK (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Air Traffic Control in the USA (PGN)
- Re: "Inherently safe nuclear reactors" (Jim Carter)
- Submarine reactor safety (Jim Hunt)
- Re: A different RISK? (in-flight control computers) (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Risks"-taking" of in-flight control computers (Eugene Miya)
- Software Risks with Cable TV (Walt Thode)
- The UNIX rwall problem ["My Broadcast"] (Jordan K. Hubbard)
- Volume 4 Issue 74 (14 Apr 87)
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- Re: In-flight control computers (Henry Spencer)
- Trojan Horse alert (Al Stangenberger)
- The Limits of Software Reliability (Brian Randell)
- Re: Conrail Sale Funds Transfer -- and a 747 overflow (Henry Spencer)
- Re: VDT related skin cancer? (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Open University Fire (Henry Spencer)
- DES Second Review Notice [on the RISKS OF STANDARDS] (David M. Balenson)
- Bank Computers (Not ATM's) (Ken Ross)
- The Marconi Affair (Brian Randell)
- Volume 4 Issue 75 (22 Apr 87)
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- Flight control risks (Peter Ladkin)
- ``More on risky high-g piloting'' (Tom Perrine)
- Checklist stops risks? (Joseph Beckman)
- Radiation risk at airports? (Paul Stewart)
- How to post a fake (Chuq Von Rospach, Rob Robertson)
- Re: Bank Computers (Not ATMs) (Kuhn)
- Correction to Conrail Sale Funds Transfer (Mark Brader)
- "Reliability Theory Applied to Software Testing" (HP Journal)(Rich Rosenbaum)
- Volume 4 Issue 76 (22 Apr 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 77 (23 Apr 87)
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- 'Hackers' hit the Jackpot (Michael Bednarek)
- Fidelity Mutual Funds Money Line feature (Chris Salander via Barry Shein)
- VCRs, Telephones, and Toasters (Martin Ewing)
- Checklists, Aircraft risks, and Neutrons (Eugene Miya)
- Neutron Beams for Explosives Detection (Marco Barbarisi)
- Forgery on Usenet (Brad Templeton)
- Re: How to post a fake (Wayne Throop)
- Volume 4 Issue 78 (26 Apr 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 79 (2 May 87)
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- Risks of RISKS resurgent -- CSL DEAD FOR THREE DAYS, STILL HALF DEAD
- Re: Fidelity Mutual Funds Money Line feature (Amos Shapir)
- Wheels up (Martin Minow)
- Special Risk Assessment issue of 'Science' (Rodney Hoffman)
- Radiation hazards to computers (Wm Brown III)
- Neutron beam detection (Richard H. Lathrop)
- Computer Database Blackmail by Telephone (Steve Summit)
- Liability Law in the UK (Brian Randell)
- Volume 4 Issue 80 (5 May 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 81 (7 May 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 82 (10 May 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 83 (12 May 87)
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- Risks of sharing RISKS (Ted Lee)
- Information Commission (Jim Anderson)
- ``How a Computer Hacker Raided the Customs Service'' (Michael Melliar-Smith)
- Computer thefts (Jerry Saltzer)
- Bomb Detection by Nuclear Radiation (Michael Newbery)
- Computer floods summer course registration at U. of Central Florida (Mark Becker)
- A password-breaking program (Dean Pentcheff)
- Sidelight on the Marconi Deaths (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Software Reliability book by Musa, Iannino and Okumoto (Dave Benson)
- "The Whistle Blower" (Jeff Mogul, via Jon Jacky)
- Volume 4 Issue 84 (12 May 87)
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- Re: Information Age Commission (Herb Lin, Richard Cowan, Bob Estell, David LaGrone, Michael Wagner)
- Re: Information Age Commission; Summer Courses at UCF (William Brown III)
- Re: A password-breaking program (Dean Pentcheff, Jerry Saltzer, Dave Curry)
- Re: Computer thefts (Michael Wagner)
- Re: Computer-related Cadillac recall (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Volume 4 Issue 85 (14 May 87)
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- Holiday reading (Jim Horning)
- Hey, buddy, wanna buy a phone call cheap? (PGN)
- Re: Information Age Commission (Ted Lee, SEG)
- Information Age Commission and the number of readers of RISKS (David Sherman)
- Lockable computers (Pat Hayes)
- How a Computer Hacker Raided the Customs Service -- Abstrisks (a nit) (Paul F Cudney)
- Volume 4 Issue 86 (18 May 87)
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- ATM Fraud (Chuck Weinstock)
- Between Iraq and a Hard Place [Protect Your Phalanx] (William D. Ricker)
- Wozniak Scholarship for Hackers (Martin Minow)
- Information Overload and Technology? (David Chess)
- Passwords, thefts (Andrew Burt)
- Passwords, sexual preference and statistical coincidence? (Robert W. Baldwin)
- Volume 4 Issue 87 (20 May 87)
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- Computer Libel: A New Legal Battlefield (PGN from Digital Review)
- Electric chair tested by car insurer (Bill Fisher from Machine Design)
- Computers and Open Meetings laws (Barbara Zanzig)
- Re: Phalanx (Chuck Weinstock)
- Choosing a password (Jonathan Bowen)
- Re: Passwords, thefts (Michael Wagner)
- Nuclear Plant Emergency Plan: In Event of Quake, Smash Toilets (UPI via Don Hopkins, Michael Grant, and Geoff Goodfellow)
- Volume 4 Issue 88 (21 May 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 89 (24 May 87)
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- Factory Robots Killing Humans, Japan Reports (PGN)
- Mysterious BART power outage (PGN)
- More on the Master Password attack (PGN)
- Measures, countermeasures, and under-the-countermeasures (PGN)
- Phalanx (Scott Dorsey, Henry Spencer)
- rhosts (Anthony A. Datri)
- Computer Bill of Rights (Eugene Miya)
- Credit Information Access (Ron Heiby)
- Open meeting laws (Jonathan Handel)
- Privacy and Email - The Law Takes Notice (Jerry Leichter)
- Volume 4 Issue 90 (25 May 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 91 (28 May 87)
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- Electromagnetic Interference in Japan (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Risk of Inappropriate Technology to Prevent Password Overwrite (Paul Stachour)
- Passwords and Statistics (Earl Boebert)
- Why Cellular phones at the Indy 500? (Robert Adams)
- Information Security Products and Services Catalog by NSA (Kurt F. Sauer)
- Re: TRW "Credentials" (John R. Levine) [Other messages overlapped, omitted]
- Phalanx Schmalanx (PGN, Mike Trout, Torkil Hammer)
- Laser guides (Jon A. Tankersley)
- Re: Risks of running Risks (Jeff Woolsey, Will Martin)
- Re: Computer thefts (David Phillip Oster)
- Volume 4 Issue 92 (30 May 87)
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- Computer matching of cats and dachshunds (Rick Kuhn)
- Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) & Liability (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Horror story about inadvertent wiretapping (Gordon Davisson)
- ATM fraud (Bob Johnson)
- Computer thefts (Mike Alexander, Brint Cooper)
- Shooting Down Exocet Missiles (Mark S. Day)
- Phalanx is unreliable? (Lorenzo Strigini)
- Stark Incident (Eugene Miya)
- Technical error in item "Phalanx Schmalanx" (Mark Brader)
- Phalanx; Laser guides (Phil Ngai)
- Laser guided anti-tank weapons (Eugene Miya)
- Unfair testing (Paul Peters)
- "Credentials", Privacy, etc. (Willis Ware, Alan R. Katz)
- Volume 4 Issue 93 (1 Jun 87)
- Volume 4 Issue 94 (2 Jun 87)
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- Australian Computer Crime (Donn Parker)
- PCs and Computer Fraud (PC Week via PGN)
- Technological vs. (?) human failure (Nancy Leveson)
- Risk of Inappropriate Technology to Prevent Password Overwrite(Henry Spencer)
- A twist on modems calling people (Steve Valentine)
- Risks of Compulsive Computer Use (Steve Thompson)
- Perhaps the Bill of Rights you sought? (Bruce Wisentaner)
- Error(s) in "Phalanx Schmalanx" (Mike Trout)
- Volume 4 Issue 95 (3 Jun 87)
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- COMPASS '87, of particular interest to the RISKS audience (Stan Rifkin)
- Re: Run-time checks (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Risks of Inappropriate Technology to Prevent Password Overwrites (Michael Robinson)
- Clarification of PL/I array checking (Michael Wagner)
- Risks for computer junkies (Robert Hartman)
- Re: When Computers Ruled the Earth (Bank Stupidity) (Ed Sachs)
- Clarification on CHAPPARAL and VULCAN (Bill Gunshannon)
- Volume 4 Issue 96 (6 Jun 87)
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- Lightning Strikes Twice At NASA (Matthew P Wiener)
- Iraqi cockpit navigation system placed Stark in exclusion zone? (Jon Jacky)
- Run-time checks (Howard Sturgis, Henry Spencer, James M. Bodwin, Alan Wexelblat)
- Error Checking and Norton's Assembly Language Book (James H. Coombs)
- Re: Risks of Compulsive Computer Use (Douglas Jones)
- A reference on Information Overload; a Paradox of Software (Eugene Miya)
- Computerholics (James H. Coombs)
- Naval Warfare -- on possible non-detonation of missiles (Mike McLaughlin)
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