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 6
Tuesday, 31 May 1988
Issue 1 (2 Jan 88)-
- The Christmas Virus (Martin Minow)
- Password security in multi-user systems (J. Eric Townsend)
- Re: Program trading (K. Richard Magill)
- DES and NSA's new codes (Tom Athanasiou)
- Electronic Interference (Al Watters)
- American Express security ... (Henry Mensch)
- SSN / Phone Number / etc. on credit purchases (Jordan Hayes, David Albert)
- Issue 2 (4 Jan 88)
- Issue 3 (5 Jan 88)
- Issue 4 (6 Jan 88)
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- PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- More on Missouri Voting Decision (Charles Youman)
- Market for prankster programs? (Geoff Goodfellow)
- Ham radio operators and cancer (Mark Fulk, Steve Philipson)
- Getting into ATM rooms (Mark A. R.)
- Re: Knowing Source Code is not Sufficient (Michael Wagner)
- Trust and quoting and write-only hard disks (Michael Wagner)
- Issue 5 (7 Jan 88)
- Issue 6 (8 Jan 88)
- Issue 7 (11 Jan 88 )
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- You don't need a computer to have a technical RISK. (Joe Morris)
- Leap second leaps seconds (Alan Wexelblat)
- Plan to automate Federal tax collection system? (John Gilmore)
- Creative quality control in missile systems? (Dave Curry)
- Re: getting into ATM rooms (Eric Skinner)
- Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Computer asks you your SSI number as ID (Hank Roberts)
- Computer Virus.... sources(!) (David HM Spector)
- Reagan Signs Bill Governing Computer Data (Hugh Pritchard)
- Indianapolis Air Force jet crash (Dave Curry)
- Issue 8 (12 Jan 88)
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- Missent Missives (Martin Ewing, Leonard B. Bliss)
- Touch-Tone Risks (Andrew Vaught)
- American Express Computer Problem 2 (Frank Wales)
- Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scott Nelson)
- UK Logic Bomb Case is Thrown Out (Geoff Lane)
- SSN abuse warned about long ago (Richard Brown)
- SSN Required Disclosures -- library social security privacy (Steve Cisler)
- Issue 9 (14 Jan 88)
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- "The Consultant" by John McNeil (Jim Horning)
- Re: Missent Missives (Ge' Weijers, Steve Caine, Brent Chapman)
- Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Sam Cramer)
- SSN / Phone Number / etc. (Andrew Burt, Bruce O'Neel)
- Library book borrowing privacy (Geoff Goodfellow, Will Martin, Steve Cisler)
- SSNs (Ian G Batten)
- Issue 10 (15 Jan 88)
- Issue 11 (22 Jan 88)
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- Another One-Character Error (Earl Boebert)
- Safety in MIL-STD-2167A (Nancy Leveson)
- Brady Report on the Crash (Randall Davis)
- Data tampering, CTFC study of Major Market Index (Randy Oppenheimer)
- Court drops 'logic bomb' trial (John Pettitt)
- Official word on Social Security Numbers (Rob Austein)
- VAX/VMS security problem (Philip Taylor via Rob Gross)
- TimeWarps as an omen (Jeffrey R Kell)
- New Year's (Robert Slade)
- Time-chasing (Paul Fuqua)
- Re: New Year's Sun clock (Martin Ewing)
- Issue 12 (22 Jan 88)
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- Risks in technology transfer policy (Alan Wexelblat)
- Trojan-horsed smart terminals? (Tim McDaniel)
- The virus reaches Israel (Martin Minow)
- Checking for Trojan Horses and Viruses (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
- RISKS of uux(1) and trusting remote hosts (Abercrombie)
- Sheep, Goats, and responding to computer-generated requests (Martin Smith)
- Proposal for Fault Tolerance Newsgroup (Don Lee)
- Issue 13 (24 Jan 88)
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- U.S. Fears Satellites Damaged (PGN)
- Signal-light malfunction blamed in L.A. train wreck (PGN)
- Big Error on Benefits by a State Computer (PGN)
- London Underground Ticket Machine fraud (John Pettitt)
- The responsibility of and for `bringing us C and Unix' (Geraint Jones)
- Technology transfer policy and Halley's Comet probe (Alex Colvin)
- Non-ionizing radiation (John Nowack, Jonathan Thornburg)
- Books about SDI software -- a request (Dan Jones)
- Issue 14 (25 Jan 88)
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- Safe programming languages (Bob Estell)
- More about the technology transfer policy (Paul Smee)
- A second Sun clock error: no sanity checking (John Bruner)
- "Things That Go 'Beep'" (Paul Fuqua)
- High-voltages and Europe vs USA (Kee Hinckley)
- I know why Ham Radio Operators die so often!!! (silly) (Eric Townsend)
- Issue 15 (26 Jan 88)
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- RISKS in Cable TV? ([...])
- Re: U.S. Fears Satellites Damaged (Henry Spencer)
- My country's misguided technology transfer policy (Geoff Goodfellow)
- Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Douglas Jones)
- Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Larry Rosenstein)
- GAO report on the Oct 19th crash... (Barry Shein)
- Re: null loops (Mike Linnig)
- Bloody SSNs again (Hank Roberts)
- Re: Non-ionizing radiation (Henry Spencer)
- Issue 16 (27 Jan 88)
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- Computer error blamed for diplomatic fiasco (Bernard de Neumann)
- A feedback loop in tax preparation algorithms (Lawrence R. Bernstein via PGN)
- IBM's meaning of "open" in the abbreviation OSI (Peter Sylvester)
- Bank abandons fouled-up computer system (Rodney Hoffman)
- Business view of software productivity (Rodney Hoffman)
- VMS and login failure logins (Jerry Leichter)
- Software Power Switches (Mike Russell)
- A risk of using spelling checkers (Andy Freeman)
- Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Andy Goldstein)
- Re: Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Jim Purtilo)
- Time Bombs in Bank Computers (John McLeod)
- Issue 17 (28 Jan 88)
- Issue 18 (29 Jan 88)
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- Amazing story about shuttle software whistle-blowers (Nancy Leveson)
- AT&T computer billing error (Dave Curry)
- A testing time for students (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Marty Moore)
- Re: Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Robert I. Eachus, Marty Moore)
- Technology Transfer Policy (Gordon S. Little)
- The fine points of fixed points (Jim Horning)
- Horrendous proliferation of BITNET barfmail (BITNETters PLEASE READ)
- Issue 19 (1 Feb 88)
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- No Time like the Present for Old Timers (Scott Dorsey)
- More software future shock (William Smith)
- TV Remote controls (Richard Dervan)
- Hertz Computer Hertz Repairees (Dave Wortman)
- Blowing Whistles or Blowing Smoke? (Guthery)
- Your SideKick may not be on your Side! (Scott M. Martucci)
- Re: Library Privacy -- the backup system (David Collier-Brown)
- Virus anxiety expressed in NY TIMES (Jon Jacky)
- Re: A feedback loop in tax preparation algorithms (Les Earnest)
- Issue 20 (2 Feb 88)
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- Unusual Computer Risk -- Harem Scarem? (Mike Bell)
- Mistaken AIDS warnings (Al Stangenberger)
- Human error vs human error (and bad design) (George Michaelson)
- Technology Transfer Policy (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Blowing Whistles or Blowing Smoke? (Ronni Rosenberg, Dan Franklin, Jonathan Kamens, Phil Agre, Steve Philipson, Frank Houston)
- Re: Virus anxiety expressed in NY TIMES (Amos Shapir)
- Issue 21 (6 Feb 88)
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- Delta Air Lines "Computer" Mistake (Chris McDonald)
- Missouri Voting Decision (Charles Youman)
- Re: Whistle-blowing (Bob Ayers)
- Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Svante Lindahl)
- Time base on cable TV info (Kekatos)
- Signals on power lines (Peter da Silva)
- The risk of LOJACK (Johnathan Vail)
- Risks of helpful news software (Henry Spencer)
- "My country's misguided technology transfer policy" (Hugh Davies)
- Issue 22 (8 Feb 88)
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- Software theft (PGN)
- Macintosh Virus Hits CompuServe (David HM Spector)
- King Tut, call home! (Bill McGarry)
- Whistle-blowers (Jon Jacky, Nancy Leveson)
- Even little computers aren't immune from RISKs (Dave Horsfall)
- Final results not necessarily correct -- blame the database (Luke Visser)
- Early Warning Vulnerability (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- Software Warranties (Nancy Leveson)
- Issue 23 (9 Feb 88)
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- Don't believe everything you read in the papers. (David Purdue)
- Anti-virus software (Chuck Weinstock)
- Virus paranoia (Jeffrey Mogul)
- All Viruses Considered (Martin Minow)
- OTA Report: The Electronic Supervisor (Jan Wolitzky)
- Hub auto-theft lessons; $$$ risks of Lojack (rdicamil)
- Re: voting (Mike Tanner)
- Issue 24 (10 Feb 88)
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- Alarming Wenches and Risks of Lojack (Alex Colvin, Scott A. Norton)
- Re: Software theft (Roy Smith)
- Interleaving of Early Warning Systems (Ronni Rosenberg)
- Shuttle Security (Jan Wolitzky)
- Risk Study Centers (Curtis C. Galloway)
- Legal Software testing (David Lesher)
- Re: risks of helpful usenet software (David Herron)
- Grants-chaos (F.H.D. van Batenburg)
- Re: viruses (Chaz Heritage)
- CompuServe virus - more details et cetera (David HM Spector)
- Issue 25 (11 Feb 88)
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- Something fishy is going on with credit cards (William Daul)
- "Colloidal goo" considered harmful to ATM's (Jon Jacky)
- Lottery Random Numbers Too Random... (Henry (H.W.) Troup)
- New Scientist article on viruses (Bernie Cosell)
- Virus code and Infected Definitions (Vin McLellan)
- Yet Another Virus - The "Brain" Virus (Bruce N. Baker)
- Two virus messages from Info-IBMPC (Jack Goldberg)
- Virus (Trojan) protection program now available from SIMTEL20(Keith Petersen)
- Another PC Virus (Y. Radai) [still more]
- Issue 26 (13 Feb 88)
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- Trojan horsing around with bank statements (PGN)
- Star Wars Test (Reid Simmons)
- Last-clasp credit cards (Carolyn M. Kotlas)
- "Inmate gets into computer files"; computer porn (Prentiss Riddle)
- Safe Programming Languages (Martyn Thomas)
- Viruses and Virtual Memory (Dave Tweed)
- Software-based Mugging -- RISKS of Dragon Quest(John Elemans via Kevin Kelly)
- Issue 27 (16 Feb 88)
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- Sometimes doing nothing is doing something (Carl via Jerry Leichter)
- More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Max Monningh)
- Viruses as copy protection (Eliot)
- Re: Trojan horsing around with bank statements (Henry Spencer)
- Re: computer pornography (Jonathan Kamens)
- Emergency Calls misdirected by Cellular Telephone System (Dave Wortman)
- Software Warranties (Robert Kennedy)
- Mag-stripe cards (Joel Kirsh)
- Interleaving of Early Warning Systems (Herb Lin)
- What is the responsibility of Administrators? (Chris McDonald)
- Data Physician -- Correction (Re: RISKS-6.25) (Andrew Hastings)
- Reporter seeking virus information (John Gilmore)
- Issue 28 (17 Feb 88)
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- Interleaved Alert Systems (Earl Boebert)
- Unix Review -- Safe and Secure (Aaron Schuman)
- Re: More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Amos Shapir)
- More on LTAC -- software review and warranties (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Software Warranties (Barry Nelson)
- Computer Pornography (Joe Morris, Jay Elinsky, Jim Frost, Don Mac Phee)
- A bit more on the AMTRAK crash... (John McMahon)
- Re: Last Clasp credit cards (Jack Holleran)
- 911 (Brint Cooper)
- Talk on Legal Issues of Computer Graphics by Susan Nycum (Eugene N. Miya)
- Issue 29 (19 Feb 88)
- Issue 30 (23 Feb 88)
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- The risks of pressing the wrong key -- a taxing situation (Gligor Tashkovich)
- Taxing of information (Steven Koinm)
- Using viruses for copy protection (Doug McIlroy)
- What's in a Name, III (Vint Cerf, John Pershing)
- Re: Mistaken Identity (Amos Shapir)
- Details of bank's costly computer foul-up (Rodney Hoffman)
- Voice-print security (and Rory Bremner) (J M Hicks)
- Auto-mated Citations (Mark Brader)
- Re: Shuttle Security (Henry Spencer)
- Issue 31 (24 Feb 88)
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- Risks of Advertising Messages Appended to Telex Messages (Bruce N. Baker)
- "Viruses? Don't Worry!" (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Held at Mouse-Point; Virus-Information Centres (Dave Horsfall)
- Computer Viruses -- a catalog (Dave Curry)
- Another RISK of viruses (David Purdue)
- Virus security hole (Kevin Driscoll)
- Re: More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Henry Spencer)
- Code-altering viruses (William Smith)
- Self Fulfilling Prophecies, the Chaos Computer Club,... (Frederick Korz)
- Viruses and secure systems (Kian-Tat Lim) [Fiction anticipates fact]
- Issue 32 (26 Feb 88)
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- Back-Seat Driving Goes High Tech (PGN)
- Lottomatic computing (PGN)
- Billion Dollar Software for $900 ?? (Ken De Cruyenaere)
- Airbus Fly-by-Wire Controversy (Nancy Leveson)
- File matching (Barry Nelson)
- Mistaken Identity and Display of Retrieved Sets (James H. Coombs)
- Re: Taxing information (Dick King, Jeff MacKie-Mason, jong)
- Re: the risks of voice recognition in banking services (Jerry Kew)
- SDI S/W (Fred Baube)
- Request for Viruses to be used to test AntiBiotics (Amir Herzberg)
- Viruses and "The Adolescence of P-1" (Pat Reedy)
- Issue 33 (29 Feb 88)
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- Risks of Believing in Technology (Matt Bishop)
- Slippery slopes and the legitimatization of illegitimacy (David Thomasson)
- Post Office Loses Its Zip Maker (Charles Youman)
- File matching (Brint Cooper)
- More double troubles (Peter Capek)
- Government accountability rules used to justify inspection of all files (Marc Gibian)
- Counterfeit products (Gordan Palameta)
- Re: viruses (Marcus J. Ranum)
- "The Adolescence of P-1" (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Computerized voting & punch cards (Will Martin)
- Issue 34 (1 Mar 88)
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- Leap-year madness (Charles Fineman via Chris Koenigsberg, Michael Wagner)
- Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches (Mark Brader)
- Computer Programmed in Predjudice (Brian Randell)
- Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (Joe Dellinger)
- Slippery slopes and probabilities (David Thomasson, Barry Shein)
- Risks of Believing in Technology (Scott E. Preece)
- Protection of system configuration... (James Ford)
- Stealing Passwords on Telenet (Christopher Jewell)
- Issue 35 (2 Mar 88)
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- Double pay? Thank the bank. (Dave Horsfall)
- [Psychological Aspects of] Safe Systems (Nancy Leveson, Steve Philipson)
- Disappearing skills (Len Popp)
- Re: Slippery slopes and the legitimatization of illegitimacy (Bob English)
- Sins of RISKS and Risks of SINs (Robert Slade)
- Dumb Digital Leap Year Madness (Mark Jackson, Matthew Kruk, Brint Cooper, Robert Slade)
- Re: Virus security hole (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Issue 36 (3 Mar 88)
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- $9.5 million computer-based check fraud (Donn Parker)
- Captain Zap Zaps Hackers (Donn Parker)
- Police computer problem (Michael J. Wallach)
- On the topic of correlating databases... (Matt Fichtenbaum)
- RISKs of computer swapping (Dave Horsfall)
- Bank ATMs and checking your statements (David Andrew Segal)
- Airbus Safety; Database Accuracy (Mike Olson)
- Slippery slopes & relative risk (Stephen Schaefer)
- Re: Disappearing Skills (Ronald J Bottomly)
- Invalid dates (Ross Patterson, Lee Ridgway)
- Neural networks and P1 (Dave Pare)
- Ada-caused bugs? (Jerry Harper)
- Aerospace Computer Security Applications Conference (Marshall D. Abrams)
- Issue 37 (6 Mar 88)
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- Finagling Prescription Labels (Robert Kennedy)
- Opus bulletin boards fail worldwide on 1 March 1988 (Thomas Fruin,Dave Platt)
- Social Security Administrator hides computer problems (Ivan M. Milman)
- A320 Airbus Fly by Wire System (Geoff Lane)
- Black Monday not caused by program trading, MIT's Thurow asserts. (LT Scott A. Norton)
- Re: Ada-caused bugs? (Henry Spencer)
- Magnetic card sensitivity test (a sort of) (Matti Aarnio)
- Perrow's "Normal Accidents" (Brian Randell)
- Issue 38 (7 Mar 88)
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- EPROM Risk (Brian Randell)
- Bigoted expert systems (Jack Campin)
- PC-LOCK -- BEWARE (J Greely)
- Yet another antiviral program -- BEWARE (Ted M.P. Lee)
- mac II virus (Robert Ward)
- Database Design and Misuse (James H. Coombs)
- Correlating databases; Disappearing skills; Copious warnings (Paul Smee)
- Re: Disappearing Skills (Henry Spencer, Jonathan I. Kamens, David Wittenberg, Mark Vonder Haar)
- Re: Police computer problem -- license-plate matches (Brint Cooper)
- Leap year madness (Alan J Rosenthal)
- More on Bank ATMs and checking your statements (Eric Herrmann)
- Issue 39 (8 Mar 88)
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- Computer error and learned helplessness (Bruce Sesnovich)
- Garbage In, Gospel Out (Ephraim Vishniac)
- Re: Checking Statements & Disappearing Skills (Darin McGrew)
- Disappearing skills (Al Stangenberger)
- Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (David Collier-Brown, Henry Spencer, Andrew Klossner)
- Another Mac virus on the loose? (Chris Borton via Dave Platt)
- The last word (words, words and more words) on viruses (Robert Slade)
- BEWARE of PC-LOCK (James Ford)
- Moving time backwards (Paul Smee)
- Leap Year (Harold E. Russell)
- SDI related sources (Dan Jones)
- Electronic Privacy Act Info Request (Eliot Lear)
- First Boston faces substantial loss (Dave Curry)
- Reliance on computers (Bahn)
- Number plates sans sense (Niels Kristian Jensen via Espen Andersen)[old tale]
- Re: New Macintosh virus... (David HM Spector)
- [Psychological Aspects of] Safe Systems (Hugh Davies)
- Re: Bank ATMs and checking your statements (Paul Fuqua)
- Re: waning arithmetic skills; erroneous large phone bills (Toby Gottfried)
- Trusting your calculator (Dan Franklin)
- Calculator Self Test (was: Disappearing skills) (Mark W. Eichin)
- Re: Disappearing skills (Bruce Hamilton)
- Computer Ethics in the curriculum (Rodney Hoffman)
- Database Correlation (Darin McGrew)
- Issue 41 (10 Mar 88)
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- Harmless Virus? (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
- Have I Missed Something? (Hacking, Trojan horsing, etc.) (Chris McDonald)
- Leap Year Madness (John W. Taylor Jr.) [... and Daylight Savings]
- "NOPLATE" and "NONE" (Steve Philipson) [... and SEE RISKS-3.12!]
- ATM-OS-FEARic pollution (Jim Sims)
- Another ATM discrepancy story (Ken Yap)
- Re: computer error and learned helplessness (James H. Coombs)
- Why don't they learn? (American vs European Date formats) (Gary Friedman)
- Computers on Aircraft (Keith Bjorndahl)
- Re: Reliance on computers (Inland Steel furnace burnout) (Dan Franklin)
- Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (Michael I. Bushnell)
- Need References to "Environmental Bugs" (Gene Spafford)
- Issue 42 (13 Mar 88)
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- A legal problem -- responses sought (Cathy Reuben)
- Computers on Aircraft (Robert Dorsett)
- High-Tech Trucking (Rick Sidwell)
- Re: Programs crying wolf (Peter da Silva)
- Pay cut (Martin Taylor)
- Dangers of Wyse terminals (A.Cunningham)
- Burnt-out LED (G. L. Sicherman)
- Re: Display self-test (Peter da Silva)
- Calculator Self-tests: HP34C has a full functional self-test (Karl Denninger)
- Trying harder on complex tasks than on simpler tasks (Robert Oliver)
- Police using computers - Licence plate matches - etc, etc. (Ted G. Kekatos)
- Issue 43 (15 Mar 88)
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- Leap-Year No-bull Prize Swap-Meat (PGN)
- A Copycat Scam, or, Ignorance is Bliss (Ted M P Lee)
- RISKS of programmable function keys (Darrell Long, Dave Platt, A.E. Mossberg)
- Re: CONNECT FROM "password stealer" (Peter da Silva)
- Re: Setting Clocks Backward (Scott Dorsey)
- Re: Date formats (Rahul Dhesi)
- End-Of-File checking (Peter Zadrozny)
- Taxing situations: Risks of unbridled complexity (Nelson Weiderman)
- Virus file (Robert Slade)
- Issue 44 (16 Mar 88)
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- Terry Dean Rogan, concluded (for now) (Hal Perkins)
- RISKS in Bell lawsuit (Alan Wexelblat)
- Hackers to Face Jail or Fines (Anne Morrison)
- Risk in submarine accident; MAC Virus arrives in Germany; German Hacker arrested in Paris (Klaus Brunnstein)
- RISKS in the U.S. Government Archives (sethk)
- MacMag virus infects commercial software (Dave Platt)
- More on the Brandow virus (Dave Curry)
- Issue 45 (17 Mar 88)
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- Tax penalty (Bob Larson)
- Arete': Risks in Names -- RX for Confusion (PGN)
- Trusting aircraft instruments (Spencer Garrett, Steve Philipson)
- Hidden bugs from language extensions (William Smith)
- Date formats (Cormac O'Reilly)
- MacMag virus a SubGenius plot? (Prentiss Riddle)
- Re: Dangers of Wyse Terminals (Douglas Jones, Jim Frost)
- Virus file requests (Robert Slade)
- "NOPLATE" and "NONE" (Eric Norman, lee)
- High-Tech Trucking (Michael Wagner)
- Architecting Telephone Systems (Graham Wilkinson)
- Risks of using computers for Architectural Engineering (Steven Koinm)
- Issue 46 (18 Mar 88)
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- Incorrect computer data entries hide bridge dangers (Jon Mauney)
- Re: Held at Mouse Point (Bruce N. Baker)
- Federal Archive Integrity (Fred Baube)
- Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wayne H. Badger)
- First-hand problems with Social security numbers (anonymous)
- RISKS in Bell lawsuit (Scott E. Preece)
- Teller Machines (Jon Mauney)
- Program prejudice; ATMs; self-test; unknowns; viruses (Larry Nathanson)
- Viruses go commercial (Norman S. Soley)
- The trouble with "Experts" (Ewan Tempero)
- Thoughts on viruses and trusted bulletin boards (Richard Wiggins)
- Issue 47 (21 Mar 88)
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- NTP Timewarp - the difficulties of synchronizing clocks (Jerry Leichter)
- USA: Time for wrong time, again (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
- Risks from smart terminals - and risks that aren't there (Jerry Leichter)
- ATMs and Fear of Cameras (Jeff Stearns)
- More Communications Insecurity (Dennis Hamilton)
- What the computer says, goes - even if it is obviously wrong. (Michael Newbery)
- Risks of automatic mailwatch reply programs (Martin Minow)
- Census data availability (Joe Morris)
- Cyber Foundation BBS (James Jones via Martin Minow)
- Issue 48 (23 Mar 88)
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- Verified microprocessor for critical applications (Jon Jacky)
- Computer rolls give indigestion to voters? (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: "NEW" Amiga virus has arrived in Europe (Harv Laser)
- "Drive by wire" autos in development (Jonathan Jacky)
- The COMMON Code Virus (Kevin Driscoll)
- Lazy Lousy Linkers Leave Large Loophole, Let LowLife Lads Loose (Kevin Driscoll)
- Issue 49 (27 Mar 88)
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- Risks of loss of privacy from stolen computer (PGN)
- Things that go POOF! in the night (PGN)
- Virtuous Virus Language (Vin McLellan)
- Batch Viruses (Brian M. Clapper)
- Atari ST Virus (Chris Allen via Martin Minow)
- Rhine floods Communication link; Nightmare Virus Construction Set; CCC hackers revenge threat (Klaus Brunnstein)
- The Anti-Virus Business, or, This Generation's Snake-Oil? (TMP Lee)
- Issue 50 (28 Mar 88)
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- Short stories of old computer risks (Les Earnest)
- NY TIMES on risks of cockpit automation (Jon Jacky)
- Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wayne H. Badger)
- Decomposing checks (David Rogers)
- Notifying users of security problems (Andy Goldstein)
- Entrepreneurial Viruses (Chuck Weinstock)
- Early viruses (Sayed A. Banawan)
- Person-in-the-Loop Amendment Signed into Law (Fred Baube)
- Issue 51 (29 Mar 88)
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- Drive-by-wire BMW (Zdybel)
- Re: High Tech Trucking (Franklin Anthes)
- Countering driver aggression (Leisa Condie)
- Risks in diving computers (J M Hicks)
- Why gamble on non-redundant systems? (Roy Smith) [lotto]
- RISKS of using the "AT&T Public Phone Plus" (Henry Mensch)
- The risks of rumours (Dave Horsfall)
- Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wm Brown III)
- Program prejudice and psychological testing (Prentiss Riddle)
- Funny phone (Steve Strassmann)
- Risks there and whoops! still there! (A.E. Mossberg)
- Issue 52 (1 Apr 88)
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- April Fool's warning from Usenet (Gene Spafford via Cliff Stoll)
- Quebec Probing Leak of Government Information -- (Glen Matthews)
- New virus reported (Wes Brzozowski via Dave Goldblatt via Al Stangenberger)
- Virus precursor: "ANIMAL" (Mike Van Pelt)
- More On Race and Ethnicity Questions... (Mike Pabrinkis)
- Re: Short stories of old computer risks (Ephraim Vishniac)
- Re: Notifying users of security problems (Hugh Davies)
- Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Henry Mensch)
- Bankcard authorizations (Fred McKay)
- Terminals and checking the facts (Jerry Leichter)
- Issue 53 (1 Apr 88)
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- Virus attacks RISKS (Martin Minow)
- First International Conference on Secure Information Systems
- Wednesday's time trouble at SRC (and fault-tolerant systems) (Tim Mann via Jim Horning)
- Two old viruses (Bill Kennedy)
- Credit card limits (Richard Wiggins)
- Bankcard authorizations (John Pershing)
- Things that go POOF! (Vander-Vlis)
- Diving tables (Joel Kirsh, Keith Anderson)
- Re: Terminals and checking the facts (A.E. Mossberg)
- Issue 54 (4 Apr 88)
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- Re: April Fool's Warning from Usenet (Gene Spafford)
- Intolerant Fault-Tolerance (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- How Computers Get Your Goat (PGN)
- Old viruses (Jerry Leichter)
- Re: Notifying users of security problems (Andy Goldstein)
- The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51 (Les Earnest)
- Just Another Unix Spoof (Paul Cudney)
- Issue 55 (5 Apr 88)
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- Battle of the Virus Hunter (Amos Shapir)
- Software & War (Chief Dan Roth)
- A new RISK prevention scheme? (Eric Haines, not John Saponara)
- Yet Another UnTimely Risk (Paul Cudney)
- Olde Virus Shoppe (Barry Hayes, Douglas Jones)
- Re: (c) Brain VIRUS (Chief Dan Roth)
- Re: Risks in diving computers (Rich Sands)
- RISKS in philosophyland (David Thomasson)
- Risks of NOT giving race/ethnicity (David Rogers)
- Re: More On Race and Ethnicity Questions... (Henry Spencer)
- April Forgeries (Charles Daffinger, Rahul Dhesi)
- Issue 56 (7 Apr 88)
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- Guess what? A modified FLUSHOT! (James Ford)
- Scrambled FAT from hell (EDRAW) (Jay F. Rosenberg via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Re: Notifying users of security problems (Eric Postpischil)
- Another quarter heard from (re: viruses) (T.M.P. Lee)
- Virus distribution idea (Will Martin)
- Kerberos documentation -- [Third-Party Authentication] (Jennifer Steiner)
- Terminals: Why the discussion was interesting (Jerry Leichter)
- Issue 57 (7 Apr 88)
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- "Drive-by-light" automobile to be demonstrated (Jon Jacky)
- Air Force replacing flight training with simulation (Jon Jacky)
- Cockpit Automation Risks (Alan M. Marcum)
- Ada and exploding missiles (Jon Jacky)
- Bank money machines (Rick McTeague)
- Re: On UnTimely RISKS (RISKs of political consideration) (Eugene Miya)
- How Computers Get Your (Clarified) Goat! (Glen Matthews)
- Philosophy and discrimination (John Lavagnino)
- Comment on "Diving Risks" (Phil Pfeiffer)
- Re: The risks of rumours (Henry Spencer and Ken De Cruyenaere)
- Re: High Tech Trucking (George Michaelson, John Haller)
- Block mode terminals (Steve Bellovin)
- Issue 58 (11 Apr 88)
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- Computers are a drain on police cruisers (Mark Brader)
- What happened to personal responsibility? (George Michaelson)
- Re: Intolerant Fault-Tolerance (Tom Lane)
- Another Security Clearance Story (Ronald J Wanttaja)
- A new VMS security hole? (Jonathan Corbet)
- Re: Notifying users of security problems (John O. Rutemiller, William Smith)
- April Fool's Warning (Piet Beertema)
- Viruses (Fred Cohen)
- Virus Distribution (Peter G. Rose)
- Re: The "(c) Brain" virus is not a new virus. (Rob Elkins)
- There is a VT220 with block mode available from DEC. (David E A Wilson)
- Enfranchising the disenfranchised: our responsibility? (Tom Betz)
- Discrimination and careless arguments (David Thomasson)
- Issue 59 (12 Apr 88)
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- Robot suicide (Tom Slone)
- Computer Risks? UUCP map entries? ()
- Comment on "Diving Risks" -- Fail Safe Design? (Mark W. Eichin)
- ``How Computers Get Your Goat'' (Kevin B. Kenny)
- Should You Trust Security Patches? (Steve Bellovin)
- Race? (John Macdonald)
- A Cray-ving for RISK prevention (Matt Fichtenbaum)
- Re: What happened to personal responsibility? (Henry Spencer)
- Discrimination (John Lavagnino, Darin McGrew)
- Nonviral biological analogies -- a reference (Eugene Miya)
- New constituency for RISKS (Soviets embrace UNIX) (Jon Jacky)
- Vendor speak with "functioned" tongue! (Chris McDonald)
- Issue 60 (13 Apr 88)
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- Quebec's Centralized Filing System (Glen Matthews)
- State taxes on a new computer system (Steven McBride)
- Feynman & the Challenger disaster (Wm. Randolph Franklin and Willie Smith)
- Risks of computerized editing? (Haynes)
- New risk to computer users identified -- VCRs (Gary Chapman)
- Pilotless Combat Planes (Rodney Hoffman)
- April Fool once more (Piet Beertema)
- Re: Macintosh off switch (Mike Linnig)
- Diving (Rich Sands)
- Re: Discrimination and careless arguments (Les Earnest)
- Discrimination -- unmuddling the muddlies (David Thomasson)
- What was the question? (John (J.G.) Mainwaring)
- Issue 61 (14 Apr 88)
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- Obscure C contest gaffe (Matthew P Wiener)
- Risks of Lap-Tops in Exams (PGN)
- Re: Macintosh Power switch (Greeny)
- Crimes of the Depressed (Vin McLellan)
- More evidence for an old risk -- Enigma (Dave Mankins)
- Norwegian embezzlement (Eirik Kim Pedersen via David Edwards)
- Race, identification, and muddly thinking (David Thomasson)
- "Race" as ID (Will Martin)
- Re: File "RISKS-6.FEYNMAN" -- and a ghost story (Jerry Leichter)
- Issue 62 (15 Apr 88)
- Issue 63 (17 Apr 88)
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- The Phantom of the Arpanet (Cliff Stoll)
- New VMS security problems? (Klaus Brunnstein and Darren Griffiths)
- Printers as perforators (Stephen Page)
- Another ATM story (Win Treese)
- Re: Accountability (Eugene Miya)
- BENEFITS! of RISKS (Post Office Stamp Machines) (Eugene Miya)
- Color blindness (Rick Sidwell)
- Race, Sex, and other imponderables (Joe Dellinger)
- Ethnics and UCB (Peter da Silva)
- Re: Enfranchising the disenfranchised: our responsibility? (Paul Shields)
- Diving ascent computer (Mike)
- Productivity: Progress, Prospects, and Payoff -- Preliminary Program (Charles Youman)
- Issue 64 (18 Apr 88)
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- Risks of reprogramming keyboards (John Coughlin)
- Fear of flying? (Daniel B Dobkin)
- "Flight international" magazine about civil avionics (L. Strigini)
- Another STARK investigation; faulty simulation implicated? (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Ethnics and UCB (Bob Ayers)
- Re: More evidence for an old risk -- Enigma (Henry Spencer)
- Re: DEC's recent security patch (Darren Griffiths)
- Issue 65 (20 Apr 88)
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- Creating Alternatives to Whistleblowing (Vin McLellan)
- Safety nets under falling bridges (Rob Horn)
- Datamation, 15 April 1988, on "Risk" (Martin Minow)
- Poorly designed error messages (Bob Larson)
- RISKy Airline Meals (Mark Jackson)
- Response-time variability -- prior art (Martin Minow)
- Re: Security of OS: who is responsible? Klaus Brunnstein
- Israeli Viruses (Fred Cohen)
- Time-zone problem (Peter Webb)
- Issue 66 (21 Apr 88)
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- Risk of parolee database that is out of date (Robert White)
- Lap-Tops, etc. in final exams -- a common-mode fault (Andrew Duane)
- Airline Risks (David R. Hampton)
- Another ATM story (Dave Fiske)
- More on HP benchmark story: how it might have been avoided (Tom Lane)
- Mongrelism 1: Fuzzy concepts lead to fuzzy decisions (Les Earnest)
- Mongrelism 2: Genetic Classification and the Urge to Merge (Les Earnest)
- Risks of RISKS -- textual tampering (Doug Claar)
- Issue 67 (24 Apr 88)
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- Prestel case concluded (Peter Dickman, M. Douglas McIlroy)
- Mysterious British Death Toll at 10 -- another computer engineer dead (PGN)
- SDI feasibility and the OTA report (PGN)
- Trustworthiness of time-stamps (PGN)
- KAL 007 once again
- Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Michael Wagner)
- BIX Ad (Risks of US Mail) (Fred Baube)
- "Momentum" of engineering projects (Charles H. Buchholtz)
- Viruses at Customs (Robert Slade)
- Viruses -- SCIENCE and Computers&Society (Howard Israel)
- RISK! in Datamation (Jim Horning)
- Re: Engine explosions due to overspeed, crew stupidity [Unverified] (Joseph Nathan Hall)
- RISKS DIGEST 24 Apr 88
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab computer break-ins (John Markoff)
- Cops Catch Clumsy Computer ``Criminal'' (Curtis C. Galloway)
- Cliff's Little Black Book (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Issue 69 (25 Apr 88)
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- Social INsecurity (Kenneth R. Jongsma)
- Risks in momentum (Robert Adams)
- BIX Ad (Risks of US Mail) (Henry Mensch)
- At the tone, leave your message at your own risk (Mark Mandel)
- A shortie on color blindness (Eugene Miya)
- Suicidal bandwagon (Geraint Jones)
- YAVR (Yet Another Virus Report) -- "Scores" (Fred Baube)
- Requests for advice to the U.S. Congress on viruses (Herb Lin)
- National Policy on Controlled Access Protection (Chris McDonald)
- Re: Accountability (Henry Spencer, Jon Jacky)
- Searching for interesting benchmark stories (Eugene Miya)
- Issue 70 (26 Apr 88 )
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- KAL007 and Bourland's Electronic Warfare Theorem (Clifford Johnson)
- Powerhouse Patrons Behind ID Tokens (Vin McLellan)
- Virus Sores and Scores (John Norstad via Vin McLellan)
- Britain launches software safety study (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Yet Another UnTimely Risk (John S. Quarterman)
- A slight correction... on Harwell (Mike Salmon)
- Computer Viral Center for Disease Control? (TMPLee)
- Issue 71 (28 Apr 88)
- Issue 72 (28 Apr 88)
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- Yet another skunk in the squirrel story (Rick Jaffe)
- Garbage ($20) in, garbage ($20) out (Joel Kirsh)
- Re: KAL 007 (Steve Philipson)
- Civil aviation risks (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Creating alternatives to whistleblowing (John Gilmore)
- Re: textual tampering (John Gilmore)
- Re:Fault tolerant systems... (Hugh Davies, Andrew Klossner)
- DoD (and the rest of us) protecting ourselves against viruses (John Gilmore)
- Re: Computer Viral Center for Disease Control? (Prentiss Riddle)
- Issue 73 (29 Apr 88)
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- RISKS of Amateur Radio Call-sign License Plates (Stanley F. Quayle)
- Social Security Numbers on Driver's Licenses (Stanley F. Quayle)
- A Short List of Nits about "Normal Accidents" by Perrow (Stanley F. Quayle)
- A perspective on viruses (Bill Murray)
- Write-protection for hard disks (Bill Murray)
- FPP and garbled text (Joe Morris)
- Swapping Cash Containers (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Reference Legends of Caltech (Stop ending mail requests!) (Eugene Miya)
- Center for Viral Monitoring -- I'm trying! (Chip Copper)
- ATM blues (Bob Sidebotham)
- Yet another ATM story (Bruce Hamilton)
- YADBR (Yet Another DB Risk) (George Michaelson)
- Issue 74 (1 May 88)
- Issue 75 (2 May 88)
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- The effectiveness of write-protection (WHMurray)
- Brain virus remembered (Fred Cohen)
- To speak of the disease is to invoke it? (Viruses) (Fred Cohen)
- Fear of Fear of Viruses (John Chambers)
- New BITNET LISTSERV group for discussing viruses (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
- Re: KAL007 (Don Wegeng)
- "Human Error" and RISKS of being deceased (Jon Jacky)
- Pitfalls of simulation (economic models) (Jon Jacky)
- Re: bad checks (Brian Kantor)
- Re: NORMAL ACCIDENTS (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Stores and SSNs and Perrow (David Chase)
- W.H.J. Feijen on Formal Specification of Programs
- Issue 76 (3 May 88)
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- Supporting data for Hirsh's explanation of the KAL007 incident (Nancy Leveson)
- KAL007 (Steve Philipson, PGN)
- USS Stark (Bahn)
- Ada in strategic weapon systems including nuclear attack warning (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Virus protection (David Collier-Brown)
- To speak of the disease is to invoke it? (Viruses) (WHMurray, Henry Spencer)
- Detectability of viruses (Fred Cohen, PGN)
- Issue 77 (4 May 88)
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- $15.2 million Pennsylvania lottery scam (PGN)
- Risks of marketing computer products (Mark Eckenwiler)
- ERIC and VULT identified (WHMurray)
- Virus Distribution Idea (Fred McKay)
- ATM card / Mail Verification (Bruce Howells)
- Paying Cash to Avoid Records? (Russ Nelson)
- More on engine overspeed and autothrottle (Leonard N. Foner)
- More SS# RISKS (Les Earnest)
- Issue 78 (5 May 88)
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- Rambling robot disrupts evening news broadcast (Donn Seeley)
- Phone fraud -- $150,000 (PGN)
- Blame it on the computer -- lost homework! (PGN)
- Re: Creating alternatives to whistleblowing (Henry Spencer)
- KAL 007 (Robert Dorsett)
- Micros & Airlines - A New Angle (Anand Iyengar)
- Ollie North Helps PROFS sales (David A. Honig)
- Issue 79 (7 May 88)
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- Abuse of power by the press: PCs down BBall scoreboard clocks! (Richard Cook)
- Re: Is the Press impressing or depressing? (Les Earnest, Cliff Stoll, LE)
- KAL007 - the defeaning silence continues (Clifford Johnson)
- Risks of auditing for risks (Doug Claar)
- Viruses and write-protection (Dennis Director)
- Harrier ejection-seat accident (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Henry Spencer)
- Risks of Halon to the environment vs. risks of other fire protection (Dave Cornutt>
- Issue 80 (8 May 88)
- Issue 81 (9 May 88)
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- Congress, computer breakdowns, and the SDI (Gary Chapman)
- Risks in timestamps (postmarks) (Alan Wexelblat)
- Risks in the phone system (Boyle)
- Risks of banking -- audio tellers (Daniel P Faigin, Alan M. Marcum)
- Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Michael Wagner, Michael Bednarek)
- KAL 007 (Steve Philipson)
- Atari ST virus hiding place (Allan Pratt)
- Viruses and write-protection (Fred Cohen, Bill Murray)
- Issue 82 (11 May 88)
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- Risks of Research Computing -- Don't ask computers for flavors (PGN)
- Risks of Single Point Failures -- The Hinsdale Fire (Chuck Weinstock and Patrick A. Townson)
- Phone system RISKS: Second-order effects (Joel Kirsh)
- Program Trading Halted (PGN)
- Law to Regulate VDT Use (Dave Curry)
- Virus Prose (Vin McLellan and John Norstad)
- Re: "Auftragstaktik" (Henry Spencer)
- Risks of banking -- audio tellers (haynes)
- Reliability of SDI-related equipment (Andy Behrens)
- Issue 83 (12 May 88 )
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- Time-bomb warning: SunOS may have one set to go off TOMORROW! (Dave Platt [2], PGN)
- A reminder on listening to the boy who cried wolf! (PGN)
- Report on the Northwest crash in Detroit (PGN)
- CCC informs on `Virus Jerusalem'; valid threat? (Klaus Brunnstein)
- `Virus Epidemic Center' at Hamburg University (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Risks and Risk Reporting (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
- Hawaiian Tel and HISS -- the Hawaiian Islands SysOp Society (Todd South)
- Issue 84 (16 May 88)
- Issue 85 (16 May 88)
- Issue 86 (18 May 88)
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- $70 million computer fraud attempt (Werner Uhrig)
- DeutschApple Virus Alerts (Otto Stolz via Vin McLellan)
- Market stability (Martin Ewing)
- Matching Dormant Accounts (STEYP-MT)
- Risky academic software development (Woody)
- AIRBUS (Steve Philipson, Henry Spencer, Mark Mandel)
- Re: Navigation and KAL 007 (Joe Morris)
- Issue 87 (19 May 88)
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- Stock Market Damping (Richard A. Cowan)
- Bankwire fraud (Steve Bellovin)
- Metallic Balloons (Keith Anderson)
- BENEFITS! of RISKS (John Kullmann)
- IRS mismatching and other computing anomalies (John M. Sullivan)
- Why technicians wait to respond to alarms (Lynn Gazis)
- Illinois Bell Hinsdale fire (Ted Kekatos, Ed Nilges, David Lesher)
- Risks of Ignoring Alarms (Daniel P Faigin)
- Halon environmental impact citation (Anita Gould)
- Issue 88 (19 May 88)
- Issue 89 (22 May 88)
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- Computer problems in the Connecticut State Lottery (Rodney Hoffman)
- Worms in evaluation copies of software (Steve Philipson)
- Comments from the "Bell System" on the Hinsdale Fire (Mike Eastman)
- Illinois Bell Fire (Bradley W. Dolan)
- Smoke detectors and electrical equipment (John Bruner)
- Halon environmental impact citation (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Issue 90 (24 May 88)
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- "Man Charged with 'Infecting' Computers" (Steve Smaha)
- Automobile recall notice (Martin Minow)
- The Risks of Risks [Second-Order Friday the 13th Effects] (Mike O'Brien)
- Cash on the Nail (Betty Smith via Brian Randell)
- "Sciences & Vie Micro": BILLIONS (Franklin Anthes)
- Who watches the watchers? -- Southern Bell outage (Scott Schwartz)
- "The Bell System"; aircraft navigation systems (Steve Philipson)
- Hinsdale File (John Haller)
- Issue 91 (25 May 88)
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- Computers as a weapon? (Ken De Cruyenaere)
- Aircraft computer malfunction incidents (Nancy Leveson)
- Federal "smart cards" (Gary Chapman)
- Cash on the Nail (Michael Travers via Andrew Scott Beals)
- Style rules - a horror story (Mark Brader)
- Rebuttal on Hinsdale (Patrick A. Townson)
- Risk cost recovery -- Hinsdale (Barry C. Nelson)
- Issue 92 (25 May 88)
- Issue 93 (30 May 88)
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- Westpac disaster revisited? (Dave Horsfall)
- Telecommunications redundancy (Chris Maltby)
- Plastic cash makes for a 'safe' society (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: Daedalus and Cash on Nail (Rudolph R. Zung)
- A Thumbnail Sketch of Daedalus: David E. Jones (John Saponara)
- More on programmed trading (Charles H. Buchholtz)
- Re: Computers as a weapon ? (Amos Shapir)
- Re: risks of automatic test acknowledgement (Carl Gutekunst via Mark Brader)
- The Israeli Virus Bet Revisited (Y. Radai) [long]
- Issue 93 (31 May 88)
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- The perceptions of novice MAC users (Mark Shand)
- Risk of carrying a bank card? (Robert C. Lehman)
- Optimisers too tacit, perhaps? (J M Hicks)
- Re: Federal "smart cards" (the "Australian Card" scheme) (Jon Jacky)
- National ID card constituency (Andrew Klossner)
- Telco clerks, cellular phones, fire fighting (Andrew Klossner)
- Costs of 24-hr human attendants (Henry Spencer)
- Telecommunication Redundancy (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Re: Down in the Dumps (dvk)
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