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 5
Thursday, 31 December 1987
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
Volume 5 Issue 1 (6 Jun 87)-
- [There was no RISKS 5.1. Sorry.]
- Volume 5 Issue 2 (12 Jun 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 3 (19 Jun 87)
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- Australian ATM troubles... (David Purdue, Dave Horsfall, John Colville)
- Not paying by Access can ruin your credit limit! (Mike Bell)
- Ex-Directory [Arrested by unwristed phone mumbers!] (Brian Randell)
- Risks of Computerized Airport Gate Signs (Chuck Weinstock)
- DMV Computer Changes Names (John Mulhollen)
- UHB demonstrator flight aborted by software error (Kenneth R. Jongsma)
- Aircraft Transponders and Errors in Setting Codes (Joe Morris, Paul Suhler)
- On the bright side, at least my computer still works... (Jon Jacky)
- Human Factors and Risks (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: Risks of so-called ``computer addiction'' (John Mackin)
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (Douglas Schuler)
- Software Risk Management (Dolores Wallace)
- Volume 5 Issue 4 (24 Jun 87)
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- Immoderation and Nonmoderation (PGN)
- A Passive-Aggressive User Interface -- U.Iowa telephone tidbits (Ray Ford)
- Bogus ROOT domain server on ARPAnet (Paul Richards via Robert Lenoil)
- Printer raises utility false alarm (A. Harry Williams)
- New VAX UNIX file system disk purge runs amok (Mike Accetta via Chris Koenigsberg) [SEN 12 3 through RISKS-5.4]
- Volume 5 Issue 5 (26 Jun 87)
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- Re: Immoderation and Nonmoderation (Joe Buck, Roy Smith)
- "Computer woes hit air traffic" (Alex Jenkins)
- BBC documentary filming causes Library of Congress computer crashes (Howard C. Berkowitz via Mark Brader)
- Running out of gas could be hazardous! (Steve McLafferty)
- NASA Safety Reporting System (Eugene Miya)
- EGP madness (David Chase, Dave Mills [2])
- FCC Information Tax -- Risks of Networking (Steve Schultz)
- Volume 5 Issue 6 (26 Jun 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 7 (5 Jul 87)
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- Actual stock price change fails sanity check (Mark Brader)
- PacBell service "glitch" (Walt Thode)
- NASA Safety Reporting System (Jim Olsen)
- "Information Tax" -- Risks of nonsense (Joseph I. Pallas)
- "Computer woes hit air traffic" (Davis)
- Re: Aircraft Transponders and O'Hare AIRMISS
- Phone Company Billing Blunder (Steve Thompson)
- Relaxed DOD Rules? (Dennis Hamilton)
- Volume 5 Issue 8 (7 Jul 87)
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- Erasing Ford (and other) car computers (Shaun Stine)
- 7 Inmates Escape; Computer Blamed! (PGN)
- Hardware failures (Don Chiasson)
- Liability of Expert System Developers (Benjamin I Olasov via Martin Minow)
- PC's and Ad-Hoc Distributed DB's (Amos Shapir)
- Risks of proposed FCC ruling (Keith F. Lynch)
- RISKS in "Balance of Power" (Heikki Pesonen)
- Re: Aviation Safety Reporting System (Doug Pardee)
- A computer RISK in need of a name... (Jerry Leichter)
- Volume 5 Issue 9 (9 Jul 87)
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- BIG RED, ICEPICK, etc. (David Purdue)
- Air Traffic (out-of?) Control (PGN)
- Cause of the Mysterious Bay Area Rapid Transit Power Outage Identified (PGN)
- Sprint access code penetration (Geof Cooper)
- Eraser's edge (Martin Harriman)
- Hardware/software interaction RISK (Alan Wexelblat)
- How to (or how not to) speed up your computer! (Willie Smith)
- Re: Aviation Safety Reporting System (Jim Olsen, Henry Spencer)
- Re: RISKS in "Balance of Power" (Eugene Miya, Hugh Pritchard)
- Volume 5 Issue 10 (9 Jul 87)
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- Firebird computer story (Paul Kalapathy)
- COMPUTER CLUBS FOOT (Anthony A. Datri)
- Re: 7 Inmates Escape; Computer Blamed! (James Lujan)
- Sprint access code penetration (catching the baddie) (Darrell Long)
- US Sprint and free long distance (Eric N Starkman, Edward J Cetron)
- RE: BIG RED (Eugene Miya)
- Risks of battery disconnections (Steve Mahan)
- Japanese simulation design (Sean Malloy)
- Hardware failures and proofs of correctness (Rob Aitken, Michael K. Smith)
- Volume 5 Issue 11 (12 Jul 87)
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- Old News from New Olds: Check that Backup! (Fleischmann)
- Auto Computers (Tony Siegman)
- Re: Liability of Expert Systems Developers (George Cross)
- Re: Hardware failures (Sam Crowley)
- Hardware/software interaction RISK (Robert Weiss)
- More on Risks in "Balance of Power" (Heikki Pesonen)
- Re: Sprint access code penetration (John Gilmore)
- Volume 5 Issue 12 (16 Jul 87)
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- Another computer-related prison escape (Andrew Klossner)
- New York Public Library computer loses thousands of book references (PGN)
- Risks of being a hacker (PGN)
- Re: Old News from New Olds: Check that Backup! (Henry Spencer)
- Tax fraud by tax collectors (Jerry Harper)
- Re: Hardware faults and complete testing (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
- Re: Sprint Access Penetration (Dan Graifer)
- Phone access charges (Leff)
- Risks in Fiction [Book Report] (Martin Minow)
- The Other Perspective? (Baldwin)
- Volume 5 Issue 13 (20 Jul 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 14 (22 Jul 87)
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- FAA absolves Delta in 2 close calls, ATC problems blamed in one (PGN)
- Origin of term "intelligent machine" (Jon Jacky)
- robocop (Lou Steinberg)
- Nuclear power plants (Alex Bangs, Nancy Leveson)
- Reminder about alarms (Eugene Miya)
- FCC computer fees (Alex Bangs)
- Risks of exporting technology (Clint Wong)
- Electronic Cash Registers (William Daul)
- Brief book review of the Hacker's Handbook (John Gilmore)
- Re: Credit card risks (Amos Shapir)
- Volume 5 Issue 15 (23 Jul 87)
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- Access by 'hackers' to computer not criminal (Robert Stroud)
- On expecting the unexpected in nuclear power plants (David Chase)
- Risks of Nuclear Power (Mark S. Day)
- Chernobyl predecessors? (Henry Spencer)
- Who's responsible - ATC or pilots (Andy Freeman)
- "Intelligent" control (Alex Bangs)
- Taxes and who pays them (William L. Rupp)
- Computer Know Thine Enemy; Reactor control-room design (Eugene Miya)
- Medical computer risks? (Prentiss Riddle)
- Electronic cash registers (Michael Scott)
- Re: Credit card risks (Michael Wagner)
- Re: "The Other Perspective?" (Baldwin)
- Volume 5 Issue 16 (25 Jul 87)
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- $23 million computer banking snafu (Rodney Hoffman)
- Computer crime, etc. (Matthew Kruk, PGN)
- Reactor control-room design and public awareness (Robert Cohen)
- Computerized Tollbooths Debut in PA (Chris Koenigsberg)
- Re: ATC Responsibilities (Alan M. Marcum)
- Air traffic control and collision avoidance (Willis Ware)
- Risks of computerizing data bases (Tom Benson)
- Re: electronic cash registers and wrong prices (Brent, Brian R. Lair, Will Martin, Mark Fulk)
- Taxes and who pays them (Rick Busdiecker, Andrew Klossner)
- Volume 5 Issue 17 (26 Jul 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 18 (27 Jul 87)
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- Its Barcode is NOT worse than its Byte; Rooting for AT&T PC truffles (Elizabeth Zwicky)
- Too much security? (Richard Schooler)
- "Hacker Program" -- PC Prankster (Sam Rebelsky)
- Pittsburgh credit card hackers (Chris Koenigsberg)
- Hacking and Criminal Offenses (David Sherman)
- 911 Surprises (Paul Fuqua)
- Re: Taxes and who pays them (Craig E W)
- Statistics as a Fancy Name for Ignorance (Mark S. Day)
- Supermarkets (Chris Koenigsberg, Jon Mauney)
- Volume 5 Issue 19 (29 Jul 87)
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- Automating Air Travel (Dan Graifer)
- Responsibilities of the pilots and the traffic controllers (Nathan Meyers)
- Flippin' statistics (Joe Morris)
- Nuclear power safety and intelligent control (Rich Kulawiec)
- Single-pipe failures (Kenneth Ng)
- Hacking and Criminal Offenses (SEG)
- Passwords and telephone numbers (Jonathan Thornburg)
- Separation of duties and "2-man control" (Patrick D. Farrell)
- Volume 5 Issue 20 (30 Jul 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 21 (1 Aug 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 22 (3 Aug 87)
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- Home of IBM computers succumbs to telephone computer up-down-upgrade (PGN)
- Re: IRS Sanity Checks (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Re: Monkey business (clarification) (PGN)
- Computer (claustro)phobia (Kent Paul Dolan)
- Security-induced RISK (Alan Wexelblat)
- Another ATM story (Jeffrey Mogul)
- SDI is feasible (Walt Thode)
- Publicized Risks (Henry Spencer)
- Volume 5 Issue 23 (4 Aug 87)
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- Article on "Computer (In)security" (Jim Horning)
- DC sends bad tax bill to the *WRONG* citizen (Joe Morris)
- New Report on SDI Feasibility (Mark S. Day)
- Railway automation (Stephen Colwill)
- Faults in 911 system caused by software bug? (Jim Purtilo)
- Re: Macaqueswain steering (PGN)
- PIN-demonium (Curtis C. Galloway)
- Factory automation and risks to jobs (James H. Coombs)
- Nukes vs Coal (Tom Athanasiou) [and why is this message in RISKS? PGN]
- Volume 5 Issue 24 (6 Aug 87)
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- Another animal story (Bill Pase)
- Re: Security-induced RISK (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Factory automation and risks to jobs -- "apparently" not (Randall Davis)
- Railway automation (Scott E. Preece)
- Nuclear generated electrical power and RISKS (Dave Benson)
- PIN money? (BJORNDKG)
- Re: Another ATM story (Scott Nelson)
- Computer `assumes' the worst in billing for hotel phone calls (Bruce Forstall)
- Volume 5 Issue 25 (9 Aug 87)
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- Computer Error Opened Flood Gates of Alta Dam (Haavard Hegna)
- Heating up planning discussions ... (Robert Slade)
- Re: Faults in 911 system caused by software bug? (Paul Garnet)
- "It must work, the contract says so" (Henry Spencer)
- Separation of Duty and Computer Systems (Howard Israel)
- Optical Disks Raising Old Legal Issue (Leff)
- AAAS Colloquium Notice (Stan Rifkin)
- Secrecy About Risks of Secrecy Vulnerabilities and Attacks? (Peter J. Denning)
- Another electronic mail risk (Doug Mosher)
- Risks TO computer users (US Sprint) (James H. Coombs)
- Computer Safety and System Safety (Al Watters)
- Computers in nuclear power plants (Frederick Wamsley)
- Autoteller problems (Alex Colvin)
- Volume 5 Issue 26 (11 Aug 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 27 (11 Aug 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 28 (12 Aug 87)
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- Certification of software engineers (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Secrecy About Risks of Secrecy (Maj. Doug Hardie, Russell Williams, Jeff Putnam)
- Eliminating the Need for Passwords (Lee Hasiuk)
- Re: Risks of automating production (Richard A. Cowan, James H. Coombs)
- 'Mustn't tire the computer!' (Scott E. Preece, Rick Kuhn)
- Re: NASA wet computers (Eugene Miya)
- Halon (Dave Platt, Steve Conklin, Jack Ostroff, LT Scott Norton, Scott Preece)
- Railway automation (Stephen Colwill)
- Employment opportunities at MITRE (Marshall D. Abrams)
- Volume 5 Issue 29 (15 Aug 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 30 (19 Aug 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 31 (21 Aug 87)
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- "Computer Failed to Warn Jet Crew" (PGN)
- Risks to Privacy (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- ATM features (Jack Holleran)
- Licensing software engineers (Frank Houston, Dave Benson)
- Re: Risks of automating production (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Automated environment control (Robert Stanley, Brian Douglass)
- Trusting Computers (Marcus Hall)
- Volume 5 Issue 32 (4 Sep 87)
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- Honda eschews computers for new 4-wheel steering system (Roy Smith)
- Another Trojan Horse? (Brian Tompsett)
- Transatlantic Flights at Risk from Computer (Daniel Karrenberg)
- Re: "Computer Failed to Warn Jet Crew" (Mark Ethan Smith)
- Delta-Continental Near-Miss
- Decomposing Software (Charles Gard)
- Why the Phalanx Didn't Fire (IEEE Spectrum Reference) (Eugene Miya)
- Cheap modems and other delights (Steve Leon via bobmon)
- Reach out, touch someone (Michael Sclafani)
- SDI event (Gary Chapman)
- Volume 5 Issue 33 (4 Sep 87)
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- How to Beat the Spanish telephone system (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: Automated control stability and sabotage (Amos Shapir)
- Crisis in the Service Bay (Mark Brader)
- Who is responsible for safety? (Nancy Leveson)
- Certification of Software Engineers (Brian Tompsett, Richard Neitzel, Wilson H. Bent)
- Irish Tax Swindle (John Murray)
- Pogo Wins a Free Lunch -- Costs and Liability in Good Systems (Hal Guthery)
- Re: Bank Computers and flagging (Bill Fisher)
- Volume 5 Issue 34 (7 Sep 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 35 (10 Sep 87)
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- Drugs, DES, and the criminal world (Jerry Leichter)
- More on the Irish Tax Swindle (Jerry Harper)
- Costs and Liability in Good Systems (David Collier-Brown)
- Re: The influence of RISKS on car design? (Benjamin Thompson)
- Re: Computer Syndrome; Dutch Crime Computer (Brian Douglass)
- Reach out, touch someone (Brad Miller, Richard Kovalcik, Jr., Curtis Abbott)
- Volume 5 Issue 36 (13 Sep 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 37 (18 Sep 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 38 (24 Sep 87)
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- Computer crash causes ATC delay (Dave Horsfall)
- Risks TO Computers: Man Shoots Computer! (Martin Minow)
- An Aporkriffle Tail? (Zeke via Martin Minow) (also noted by others)
- The naming of names (Dave Horsfall)
- Aliases, SINs and Taxes (Robert Aitken)
- Risks in the Misuse of Databases (Cliff Jones)
- Sprint Sues Hackers (Dan Epstein)
- Re: Reach out, touch someone (Bob English)
- Volume 5 Issue 39 (26 Sep 87)
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- Another Australian ATM Card Snatch (Dave Horsfall)
- AT&T Computers Penetrated (Joe Morris)
- On-line Robotic Repair of Software (Maj. Doug Hardie)
- Re: An Aporkriffle Tail (Michael Wagner)
- Risks in the Misuse of Databases? (Brint Cooper)
- SDI Simulation (Steve Schlesinger)
- Ethical dilemmas and all that... (Herb Lin)
- Volume 5 Issue 40 (28 Sep 87)
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- Yet another "hackers break MILNET" story (Jon Jacky)
- Military role for software sabotage cited ... (Jon Jacky)
- $80,000 bank computing error reported in 'Ann Landers' (Jon Jacky)
- Add Vice to the Loveworn (Scot Wilcoxon)
- Concorde tires burst: RISKS without the automatic system (Henry Spencer)
- Risks of hot computers (Mark Brader)
- Re: Risks in the Misuse of Databases? (Ross Patterson)
- [SDI] Simulation (Jerry Freedman,Jr)
- Re: An Aporkriffle Tail (William R. Somsky)
- Volume 5 Issue 41 (30 Sep 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 42 (5 Oct 87)
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- Credit Markets: computer interest is high! (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Telephone computers that work (Alan Wexelblat)
- Computer Services as Property (Isaac K. Rabinovitch, Arthur Axelrod)
- JOINing on public access data -- and insider trading (Brent Laminack)
- TV Detectors (Lindsay F. Marshall, Ian G. Batten, David A Honig)
- Confusing Input Request in Automatic Voting Systems (Eke van Batenburg)
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing -- Call for Papers (Douglas Schuler)
- Risks of receiving RISKS -- BITNET users BEWARE (jfp)
- Volume 5 Issue 43 (13 Oct 87)
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- IRS Accidentally Imposes $338.85 Lien On Reagans (Chris Koenigsberg)
- Another ARPANET-collapse-like accidental virus effect (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Computers and civil disobedience (Prentiss Riddle)
- YAPB (yet another password bug) (Geof Cooper)
- News Media about hackers and other comments (Jack Holleran)
- Personalized Technology Side-effects (Scot Wilcoxon)
- Anonymity and high-tech (Nic McPhee)
- Naval Contemplation [Humor] (Don Chiasson)
- Volume 5 Issue 44 (15 Oct 87)
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- Costly computer risks (Gary A. Kremen)
- Re: News Media about hackers and other comments (Amos Shapir)
- Mailing Lists (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Discrimination considered pejorative (Geraint Jones)
- Re: Anonymity and high-tech (Brint Cooper)
- Pacemakers (Hal Schloss)
- News Media about hackers and other comments (Bob English)
- Password bug - It's everywhere. (Mike Russell)
- Re: YAPB (yet another password bug) (Brint Cooper)
- Civil Disobedience (Scott Dorsey, Bill Fisher, Eugene Miya)
- Phalanx Revisited (Risks to Carrier Aircraft) (Marco Barbarisi)
- SSNs (Bill Gunshannon)
- Volume 5 Issue 45 (19 Oct 87)
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- Stocks into Bondage? Storm prediction? Computer relevance? (PGN)
- UNIX Passwords (Dave Curry)
- Let the Punishment Fit the Crime... (Mike McLaughlin)
- Re: Computers and civil disobedience (James Peterson, Clif Flynt, Fulk, Brent Chapman)
- Unemployment Insurance Cheaters (William Smith)
- Computer Services as Property (Doug Landauer)
- Successor to Sun Spots (K. Richard Magill)
- Volume 5 Issue 46 (21 Oct 87)
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- Portfolio Insurance and Wall Street's meltdown (Rodney Hoffman)
- Software firms put on guard by Act (Jonathan Bowen)
- World Series Phone Snafu (Ted Lee)
- Re: Civil Disobedience (Jim Jenal)
- Destruction of confiscated computers (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Weather Forecasts (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Anonymity and high-tech: indirection (Robert Stanley)
- Berkeley's computer security (Al Stangenberger, David Redell)
- Computer Services as Property (Rick Busdiecker)
- Volume 5 Issue 47 (22 Oct 87)
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- Programmed Trading and the Stock Market Decline (Lt Scott A. Norton)
- Overload closes Pacific Stock Exchange computers, and other sagas (PGN)
- BankAmerica Aides Quit; Sources Cite Data System (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Air Force explores SDI-like technology (Walt Thode)
- Who knows where the computer is? (Graeme Hirst)
- Anonymity (Fred Baube)
- Re: UNIX Passwords (Richard Outerbridge)
- CD vs ADP security (Barry Nelson)
- Civil Disobedience and Computers (Robert Stanley)
- Volume 5 Issue 48 (23 Oct 87)
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- Computer Weather Forecasting (Jonathan Bowen, Robert Stroud)
- Phone Service Degradation -- and 911 (Scot Wilcoxon)
- Terrorism (Charles Shub, William Swan, Elliott Frank)
- More on password security -- clean up your act (Jeremy Cook via McCullough)
- Consumer Protection Act (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
- Re: UNIX Passwords (Russ Housley, Richard Outerbridge)
- Use of Social Security Numbers (James Peterson)
- Volume 5 Issue 49 (26 Oct 87)
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- Freak winds in southern England (sufrin, Franklin Anthes)
- On the Risks of Using Words That Sound Similar (Bruce N. Baker)
- CD, Terrorism, Stocks (Jim Anderson)
- The Stock Market Computers and SDI (Bob Berger)
- (Almost too much of) Password Encryption (Matt Bishop, Mark Brader)
- Re: Phone Service Degradation -- and 911 (R.M. Richardson)
- INUSE.COM Program (Chris McDonald)
- Free phone-calls (E. van Batenburg)
- Volume 5 Issue 50 (27 Oct 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 51 (28 Oct 87)
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- Re: Reported Japanese Autopilot Problems (Will Martin)
- (Non-)Japanese Autopilot Problems (Joe Morris)
- Possible nuclear launch prevented by parked vehicle (Scot Wilcoxon)
- SDI information system announced (Scot Wilcoxon)
- 'Computers In Battle' (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: Amusing bug: Business Week Computer (F)ails (John Pershing)
- Civil Disobedience (Fred Baube)
- Volume 5 Issue 52 (31 Oct 87)
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- Risks in intelligent security algorithms (Peter J. Denning)
- Computer's Normal Operation Delays Royal Visit (Mark Brader)
- Public notice of a security leak (Rob van Hoboken based on Nils Plum)
- sc.4.1 update dangerous (Fen Labalme)
- Mitsubishi MU-2 problems (Peter Ladkin)
- Autopilots and conflicting alarms (Matt Jaffe, Joe Morris)
- New encryption method (Stevan Milunovic)
- The Stock Market and Program Trading (Dan Blumenthal, Brent Laminack)
- Minuteman Missiles... (John J. McMahon)
- Volume 5 Issue 53 (2 Nov 87)
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- Re: Risks in intelligent security algorithms (David Redell)
- Danger of typing the wrong password (Scot Wilcoxon)
- Inadvertent Launch (Kenneth R. Jongsma)
- MX Missile guidance computer problems (John Haller)
- Re: Autopilots (Jan Wolitzky)
- Aircraft accident (Peter Ladkin)
- Missiles; predicting disasters (David Chase)
- DISCOVER Uncovered? (Bruce N. Baker)
- TV Clipping Services (Tom Benson [and Charles Youman], Samuel B. Bassett)
- Volume 5 Issue 54 (4 Nov 87)
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- Erroneous $1M overdraft -- plus interest (Dave Horsfall)
- Wrongful Traffic Tickets & Changing Computers (David A. Honig)
- Weather -- or not to blame the computer? (Stephen Colwill)
- Re: Computer's Normal Operation Delays Royal Visit (Henry Spencer)
- Auto-pilot Problems and Hardware Reliability (Craig Johnson)
- Minuteman III (Bryce Nesbitt)
- Volume 5 Issue 55 (5 Nov 87)
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- Phone prefix change cuts BBN off from world (David Kovar)
- A simple application of Murphy's Law (Geoff Lane)
- Wrongful Accusations; Weather (Willis Ware)
- Weather and expecting the unexpected (Edmondson)
- UNIX setuid nasty -- watch your pathnames (Stephen Russell)
- Penetrations of Commercial Systems (TMP Lee, PGN)
- Re: Unix password encryption, again? (Dan Hoey)
- Software Testing (Danny Padwa)
- Risks of using mailing lists (Dave Horsfall)
- Volume 5 Issue 56 (9 Nov 87)
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- News article on EMI affecting Black Hawk helicopter (John Woods)
- A New Twist with Cellular Phones (Leo Schwab)
- Computers Amplify Black Monday (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- Programmed stock trading (Michael R. Wade)
- Tape label mismatch (Jeff Woolsey)
- Phantom Traffic Tickets (Isaac K. Rabinovitch)
- National ID Card (Australia) (Tom Nemeth)
- Unix 8-character password truncation and human interface (Geoffrey Cooper)
- setuid (once more) (George Kaplan)
- Re: Minuteman Missiles (Mike Bell)
- Mailing List Humor (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
- A new kind of computer crash (Steve Skabrat)
- Volume 5 Issue 57 (12 Nov 87)
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- Mobile Radio Interference With Vehicles (Steve Conklin, Bill Gunshannon)
- Optimizing for cost savings, not safety (John McLeod)
- "Welcome To My World", BBC1 Sundays 11PM -- A Review (Martin Smith)
- Re: A simple application of Murphy's Law (Tape Labels) (Henry Spencer)
- Overwrite of Tape Data (Ron Heiby)
- Misplaced trust (B Snow)
- Bar Codes (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
- Password truncation and human interfaces (Theodore Ts'o)
- Re: UNIX setuid nasty (Geoff, David Phillip Oster)
- How much physical security? (Martin Ewing, Alex Colvin, Mike Alexander)
- Volume 5 Issue 58 (15 Nov 87)
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- Son of Stark (Hugh Miller)
- Follow-up to Black Hawk Failures article (Dave Newkirk)
- Jamming the Chopper (Brint Cooper)
- Computer systems hit by logic bombs (J.D. Bonser)
- Risk of more computers (Arthur David Olson)
- Reach out and (t)ouch! (Matthew Kruk)
- Re: Password truncation and human interfaces (Mark W. Eichin)
- Mobile Radio Interference With Vehicles (Ian Batten)
- Computer terrorism (Brint Cooper)
- Volume 5 Issue 59 (16 Nov 87)
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- Risks in Voice Mail (PGN)
- Stark Reality (LT Scott A. Norton)
- Re: How much physical security? (R.M. Richardson)
- Navy Seahawk helicopters (LT Scott A. Norton)
- Army Black Hawk helicopters (Peter Ladkin)
- External risks (John McLeod)
- Re: A simple application of Murphy's Law (Tape Labels) (Barry Gold)
- EAN and PIN codes (Otto J. Makela)
- Computerized Fuel Injection (James M. Bodwin)
- Re: Password truncation and human interfaces (Franklin Davis)
- Volume 5 Issue 60 (18 Nov 87)
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- Swedish trains collide (Rick Blake)
- Hardware and configuration control problem in a DC-9 computer (Nancy Leveson)
- Ethics, Liability, and Responsibility (Gene Spafford)
- Blackhawks and Seahawks (Mike Brown)
- Mobile Radio Interference With Vehicles (Peter Mabey)
- VW Fastbacks/RFI/EFI (David Lesher)
- CB frequencies and power (John McLeod)
- Signs of the Times (Robert Morris)
- The Mercaptan goes down with the strip (Burch Seymour)
- Re: Reach out and (t)ouch (Michael Wagner)
- Volume 5 Issue 61 (18 Nov 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 62 (20 Nov 87)
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- A Two-Digit Stock Ticker in a Three-Digit World (Chuck Weinstock)
- Stark - warning depends on operator action, intelligence data quality (Jonathan Jacky)
- Task Force Slams DoD for Bungling Military Software (Jonathan Jacky)
- Addressable CATV (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Human automata and inhuman automata (Chris Rusbridge)
- Re: CB frequencies and power (Dan Franklin, John McLeod, Wm Brown III)
- "UNIX setuid stupidity" (David Phillip Oster, Stephen Russell)
- Software Safety Specification (Mike Brown)
- Call for Papers, COMPASS '88 (Frank Houston)
- "Normal Accidents" revisited (David Chase)
- Space Shuttle Whistle-Blowers Sound Alarm Again (rdicamil)
- Volume 5 Issue 63 (23 Nov 87)
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- Logic bombs and other system attacks -- in Canada (PGN)
- Video signal piracy hits WGN/WTTW (Rich Kulawiec)
- Garage Door Openers (Brint Cooper)
- Sudden acceleration revisited (Nancy Leveson)
- Centralized Auto Locking (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: The Stark incident (Amos Shapir)
- Bank Networks (George Bray)
- Re: Optimizing for cost savings, not safety (Dave Horsfall)
- L.A. Earthquake & Telephone Service (LT Scott A. Norton, USN)
- Gripen flight delayed (Henry Spencer)
- Mariner 1 (Mark Brader)
- Systemantics (John Gilmore, haynes) [Old hat for old RISKers]
- Re: "UNIX setuid stupidity" (Joseph G. Keane, Martin Minow)
- Volume 5 Issue 64 (24 Nov 87)
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- More on NASA Hackers (Dave Curry)
- Re: Video signal piracy hits WGN/WTTW (Will Martin)
- Logic Bombs; Centralized Auto Locking (P. T. Withington)
- Re: Mariner 1 (Henry Spencer, Mary Shaw, Andrew Taylor, Martin Ewing)
- Bank Transaction Control (Scott Dorsey)
- Re: Sudden acceleration revisited (Donald A Gworek)
- Re: CB radio and power (Jeffrey R Kell)
- More on Garage Doors (Brint Cooper)
- Train crash in Sweden (Matt Fichtenbaum)
- Re: L.A. Earthquake & Telephone Service (Darin McGrew)
- Volume 5 Issue 65 (25 Nov 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 66 (27 Nov 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 67 (30 Nov 87)
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- Aging air traffic computer fails again (Rodney Hoffman, Alan Wexelblat)
- Computer Virus (Kenneth R. van Wyk via Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter)
- Fiber optic tap (Kenneth R. Jongsma)
- A new and possibly risky use for computer chips (John Saponara)
- Selling Science [a review] (Peter J. Denning)
- Risks to computerised traffic control signs (Peter McMahon)
- Risks in Energy Management Systems (Anon)
- Volume 5 Issue 68 (1 Dec 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 69 (4 Dec 87)
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- Can you sue an expert system? (Barry A. Stevens)
- Risks of Portable Computers (PGN)
- Beware the Temporary Employee (Howard Israel)
- Truncated anything (Doug Mosher)
- An ancient computer virus (Joe Dellinger)
- Cable violations of privacy (Bob Rogers)
- Re: Computer-controlled train runs red light (Steve Nuchia)
- VM systems vulnerability (Doug Mosher)
- Baby monitors end up 'bugging' the whole house (Shane Looker)
- F4 in 'Nam (Re: Reversed signal polarity...) (Brent Chapman)
- IRS computers (yet again!) (Joe Morris)
- Journal of Computing and Society (Gary Chapman)
- Volume 5 Issue 70 (6 Dec 87)
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- Wall Street crash, computers, and SDI (Rodney Hoffman)
- NW Flight 255 -- Simulator did, but wasn't (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Whistle-blowers who aren't (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Space Shuttle Whistle-Blowers Sound Alarm Again (Henry Spencer)
- A new twist to password insecurity (Roy Smith)
- More on PIN encoding (Chris Maltby)
- Telephone overload (Stephen Grove)
- Software licensing problems (Geof Cooper)
- Re: Mariner 1 or Apollo 11? (Henry Spencer, Brent Chapman)
- More on addressable converter box (Allan Pratt)
- Centralized car locks (K. Richard Magill)
- Volume 5 Issue 71 (7 Dec 87)
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- The Amiga VIRUS (by Bill Koester) (Bernie Cosell)
- Radar's Growing Vulnerability (PGN)
- Computerized vote counting (Lance J. Hoffman)
- United Airlines O'Hare Sabotage? (Chuck Weinstock)
- Re: Whistle-blowers who (allegedly) aren't (Jeffrey Mogul)
- In Decent Alarm (Bruce N. Baker)
- Need for first-person anonymous reporting systems (Eugene Miya)
- Apollo 11 computer problems (Michael MacKenzie)
- Interconnected ATM networks (Win Treese)
- Can you sue an expert system? (Gary Chapman, Jerry Leichter, Bruce Hamilton)
- What this country needs is a good nickel chroot (Bob English)
- Volume 5 Issue 72 (12 Dec 87)
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- Risks to the Rodent Public in the Use of Computers (Peter Ladkin)
- Yet another virus program announcement fyi (Martin Minow)
- IBM invaded by a Christmas virus (Dave Curry)
- Virus Protection Strategies (Joe Dellinger)
- New chain letter running around internet/usenet (Rich Kulawiec)
- On-line bank credit cards (John R. Levine)
- Central Locking (Martyn Thomas)
- Product Liability (Martyn Thomas)
- Wishing the deceased a merry christmas (automatically) (Bill Lee)
- Air Traffic Control Computer Replacement Schedule (Dan Ball)
- Re: United Airlines O'Hare Sabotage? (Dave Mills)
- Volume 5 Issue 73 (13 Dec 87)
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- Australian datacom blackout (Barry Nelson)
- Finally, a primary source on Mariner 1 (John Gilmore, Doug Mink, Marty Moore)
- Re: Computer-controlled train runs red light (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: interconnected ATM networks (John R. Levine, Darren New)
- Control-tower fires (dvk)
- Loss-of-orbiter (Dani Eder)
- Re: EEC Product Liability (John Gilmore)
- The Presidential "Football"... (Carl Schlachte)
- Radar's Growing Vulnerability (Jon Eric Strayer)
- Volume 5 Issue 74 (14 Dec 87)
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- Rounding error costs DHSS 100 million pounds (Robert Stroud)
- Computers' Role in Stock Market Crash (Rodney Hoffman)
- The Infarmation Age (Ivan M. Milman)
- Virus programs and Chain letters (David G. Grubbs)
- Baby monitors can also be very efficient "jammers", too. (Rob Warnock)
- The Saga of the Lost ATM Card (Alan Wexelblat)
- Interchange of ATM Cards (Ted Lee)
- PacBell Calling Card Security (or lack thereof) (Brent Chapman)
- IBM invaded by a Christmas virus (Franklin Davis)
- Volume 5 Issue 75 (15 Dec 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 76 (16 Dec 87)
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- Designing for Failure (Don Wegeng)
- Computer MTBF and usage (Andy Freeman)
- Liability and software bugs (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Need for Reporting Systems (Paul Garnet)
- Tom Swift and his Electric Jockstrap (Arthur Axelrod)
- Re: Expert Systems (Amos Shapir)
- The Saga of the Lost ATM Card (Scott E. Preece)
- Telephone Billing Risks (Fred Baube)
- Re: F4 in 'Nam (Reversed signal polarity causing accidents) (Henry Spencer)
- For Lack of a Nut (NASDAQ Power outage revisited) (Bill McGarry)
- Dutch Database Privacy Laws (Henk Cazemier)
- Volume 5 Issue 77 (17 Dec 87)
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- Lessons from a power failure (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Squirrels and other pesky animals (Frank Houston)
- Security failures should have unlimited distributions (Andy Freeman)
- 2600 Magazine -- hackers, cracking systems, operating systems (Eric Corley)
- Re: can you sue an expert system? (Roger Mann)
- Re: Interchange of ATM cards (Douglas Jones)
- Volume 5 Issue 78 (18 Dec 87)
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- Roger Boisjoly and Ethical Behavior (Henry Spencer, Ronni Rosenberg)
- Computer aids taxi dispatch (Jeff Lindorff)
- Re: product liability (Martyn Thomas)
- Re: Expert systems liability (Jonathan Krueger)
- Re: Australian telecom blackouts and 'hidden' crimes (Jon A. Tankersley)
- Wall Street Kills The Messenger (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Expert systems; Ejection notice? (Steve Philipson)
- Squirrels, mice, bugs, and Grace Hopper's moth (Mark Mandel)
- Volume 5 Issue 79 (20 Dec 87)
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- Re: Lehigh Virus (James Ford)
- IBM Xmas Prank (Fred Baube)
- National security clearinghouse (Alan Silverstein)
- Financial brokers are buying Suns... (John Gilmore)
- Toronto Stock Exchange Automation? (Hugh Miller)
- Who Sues? (Marcus J. Ranum)
- The Fable of the Computer that Made Something (Geraint Jones)
- Re: Litigation over an expert system (Rich Richardson)
- Tulsa; Bugs (Haynes)
- More ATM information (George Bray)
- Truncation (Alex Heatley)
- Volume 5 Issue 80 (21 Dec 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 81 (22 Dec 87)
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- The Christmas Card Caper, (hopefully) concluded (Joe Morris)
- The Virus of Christmas Past (Una Smith)
- Viruses and "anti-bodies" (Brewster Kahle)
- Cleaning Your PC Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (Brian M. Clapper)
- Product liability (Mark A. Fulk)
- Squirrels, mice, bugs, and Grace Hopper's moth (Peter Mabey)
- Fire at O'Hare (Computerworld, Dec 14 issue) (Haynes)
- American Express computer problem (Frank Wales)
- NYT article on computers in stock crash (Hal Perkins)
- Volume 5 Issue 82 (23 Dec 87)
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- NYT article on computers in stock crash (P. T. Withington)
- ...BAD PRACTICE to truncate anything without notice (Doug Rudoff)
- The spread of viruses and news articles (Allan Pratt)
- Common passwords list (Doug Mansur)
- Re: IBM Christmas Virus (Skip Montanaro)
- Cleaning PC's can be bad for your health... (John McMahon)
- PIN verification security (Otto Makela)
- Social Insecurity (Roger Pick)
- Volume 5 Issue 83 (24 Dec 87)
- Volume 5 Issue 84 (31 Dec 87)
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- Risks of Robots (Eric Haines)
- Christmas Exec AGAIN! (Eric Skinner)
- Computer glitch stalls 3 million bank transactions for a day (Rodney Hoffman)
- Switch malfunction disrupts phone service (Richard Nichols)
- 40,000 telephones on "hold" (Bob Cunningham)
- Unions denied access to commercial database services (Originally by Jeff Angus and Alice LaPlante via Michael Travers via Eric Haines via John Saponara)
- 'Leg Irons' Keep Inmates Home (Randy Schulz)
- Re: Logic Bomb case thrown out of court (Amos Shapir)
- Missouri Court Decision on Computerized Voting (Charles Youman)
- pc hard disk risks -- and a way out? (Martin Minow)
- Viruses and Goedel bugs (Matthew P. Wiener)
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