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 7
Thursday 22 December 1988
Issue 1 (1 Jun 88)-
- RISKS of Evolution and Evolution of RISKS (PGN)
- Re: Risks of automatic test acknowledgement (Paul Traina)
- Computing Down Under (Willis H. Ware)
- Computer Tampering Case to go to Trial (Joe Morris)
- Software can destroy hardware (Willis Johnson and John B. Nagle via danno)
- Cash on the Nail, by Daedalus (Brian Randell, Jacob Oestergaard Baekke)
- Re: Down in the Dumps (Stan R.Z., Mark W. Eichin, Dan Klein, Dan Franklin)
- Issue 2 (2 Jun 88)
- Issue 3 (3 Jun 88)
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- OTA Report: Science, Technology, and the First Amendment (Jan Wolitzky)
- Disasters and computer facilities (Rodney Hoffman)
- Running as root; Hinsdale redundacy; Daedelus (David Herron)
- Optimizing PL/I (Bard Bloom)
- Re: Auckland cable cars (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- My experience with metal balloons (David J. Edgerton)
- Halon (Romain Kang)
- Virus collection (Robert Slade)
- Issue 4 (6 Jun 88)
- Issue 5 (7 Jun 88)
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- Re: Auckland cable cars (in Wellington) (Mark Davies)
- Perfect computers (Hugh Cartwright)
- Assigning viruses (Ian G Batten)
- Programmer sabotage (Bob Devine)
- First Interstate disaster planning and the L.A. fire (Jeff Lindorff)
- Telecommunications redundancy (Joel Kirsh)
- Look and Feel Copyright Issue (Karl A. Nyberg)
- Risks of root typos (Tim Pointing)
- Access to DEC VMS 5.0 technical seminar (Claude Barbe)
- Risks of bank ATM cards (Karl Denninger)
- Re: Australia Card (Greg Bond)
- Issue 6 (8 Jun 88)
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- Buggy ATC Software (Paul Fuqua)
- The Challenger and visionary software architects (Kent Stork)
- How To Stop A War (Henry Spencer)
- UK Poly; another root typo (Matt Bishop)
- Re: The Australia Card (Amos Shapir)
- Re: Risks of bank ATM cards (John Pershing)
- ATM risks - the figures in UK (Alasdair Rawsthorne)
- Issue 7 (10 Jun 88)
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- Accidental breach of software security (Martin Minow)
- "Sewage flows into river; Computer Failure Blamed" (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Canadian Public Service warned against SINing (John Coughlin)
- Betting network crash in Australia (George Michaelson)
- John Pershing on ATMs (David Thomasson)
- A typo in "UK Poly; another root typo" (Matt Bishop)
- Re: The Challenger and visionary software architects (Eugene Miya)
- COMPASS '88 CONTACT (Frank Houston)
- Issue 8 (16 Jun 88)
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- New Jersey wants computer audit trails disabled (Joe Morris)
- Bunkers (C H Longmore)
- More on Blackhawk helicopter (Dave Horsfall)
- Root typos (Ken Yap)
- Costs/risks of impregnable telephone booths (Geoff Goodfellow)
- Science, Journalism, and Whistle-Blowing (HENRY SPENCER)
- Shrink Wrap (BILL MURRAY)
- Hard-disk risks from vendors (Jerry Harper)
- An old CTSS virus (Tom Van Vleck)
- Issue 9 (22 Jun 88)
- Issue 10 (27 Jun 88)
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- Four killed as Airbus crashes (Duncan Baillie)
- Laziness as an excuse (Matthew P Wiener)
- Privacy vs. Security (Larry Hunter)
- Re-using government databases (Amos Shapir)
- Root Bloopers (Doug Krause)
- Problems with VARs (Hal Norman)
- Fail-safe ATMs (Steve Philipson)
- Malicious Code Reports (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Issue 11 (29 Jun 88)
- Issue 12 (30 Jun 88)
- Issue 13 (1 Jul 88)
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- "Scratch-and-win"? Try "X-ray-and-win"! (PGN)
- SDIO computers stolen (PGN)
- Did DWIM DWYW (Do what you wanted)? (Stephen D. Crocker)
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing - DIAC-88 (Douglas Schuler)
- Grocery Store Barcodes: Another game you don't win (David A. Pearlman)
- ATM "receipts" (Mark Brader)
- Re: Risks of bank ATM cards (Dan Franklin)
- Risks of ATMs and the people who unload them (Rob Austein)
- More problems with VARs (Joe Morris)
- Re: Hard-disk risks from vendors (George Pajari)
- Issue 14 (1 Jul 88)
- Issue 15 (5 Jul 88)
- Issue 16 (6 Jul 88)
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- Air France Airbus A320 Crash Story In Aviation Week (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Common failure path in A320 (Lee Naish)
- Reply to Hugh Miller about Iran Flight 655 (Michael Mauldin)
- The Iranian airliner tragedy (Bob Estell)
- Aegis and the Iran Airbus (PGN)
- The "F-14" attacking the Vincennes... But the F-14 is for air defense (Jonathan Crone)
- It's easy to make decisions if you don't have the facts (Martin Minow)
- Re: A300 using F14 transponder (Bruce O'Neel)
- Iran Flight 655 and the Vincennes (James P. Anderson)
- Lockpicking (Randy D. Miller)
- Re: The Eyes Have It (Tracey Baker)
- RISK of PIN's - PNB calling card (Scott Peterson)
- Issue 17 (8 Jul 88)
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- Politics and Risk (Gary Chapman)
- Iranian Airbus ([mis]quotation from the SFO Chronicle) (David Parnas)
- Re: Iranian Airbus and the "facts" (Sue McPherson)
- Threshold probability for declaring a radar blip "hostile" (Clifford Johnson)
- Iran Airline Incident and meaningful real-time data (Chris McDonald)
- A320 Airbus: Air conditioning; monitoring traffic control; F-14s (Steve Philipson)
- Iranian Airbus Blame? (Chaz Heritage)
- Re: "The target is destroyed." (Henry Spencer)
- An epilogue to this issue (PGN)
- Issue 18 (8 Jul 88)
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- N-Version Programming (Jim Valerio, Nancy Leveson)
- Physical hazards (Henry Spencer)
- Accu-Scan inaccuracies (Robert Steven Glickstein)
- The Eyes Have It (Don Watrous, Evelyn C. Leeper)
- Lockpicking (Geoff Kuenning, Henry Schaffer, Lee Hounshell)
- Another "silent fault tolerance" example: DWIM (Mike O'Brien)
- ATM receipts (Joe Beckenbach)
- Issue 19 (10 Jul 88)
- Issue 20 (11 Jul 88)
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- "Computers may be at root of jet downing" (PGN)
- Iran Airbus tragedy (Chris Moss)
- Shooting down Flight 655 (Herb Lin)
- Ignoring the wolf (Andy Freeman)
- Air France Airbus crash (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Physical hazards - poorly designed switches (John Robert LoVerso)
- PIN on PNB calling card (Mark Mandel)
- Lockpicking (Henry Spencer, Robert Mathiesen, Doug Faunt, Chaz Heritage)
- Issue 21 (13 Jul 88)
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- $54.1 million embezzlement foiled (Dave Curry)
- Aegis (DAve Curry)
- Iran Air Incident (Bob McKay)
- "Binary thinking" misses a lot (Bob Estell)
- Automatic Air Traffic Control (Eldred)
- Aviation units of measure (Joe Morris)
- Mouse trap (James H. Coombs)
- Threshold probability for declaring a radar blip "hostile" (Mike Wellman, Clifford Johnson)
- Issue 22 (14 Jul 88)
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- A-320 Airbus Crash Inquiry (Brian Randell)
- User interface problem in the Aegis system? (Kee Hinckley)
- Radar cross sections, Flt. 655, and F-14s (Eugene Miya)
- GM Blames Computer for Smelly Vans (PGN)
- Lockpicking at Los Alamos (Gary McClelland)
- Supposedly-unique id. no. from non-unique personal characteristics (Larry Margolis)
- NJ Driver's license number coding (Scott Robbins)
- Colwich Junction, England, 1986 (Mark Brader)
- Shades of Fantasy in Real-Life -- group games (acwf?)
- IQ measurement by machine? (Mark Brader)
- Aviation units (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
- RISKS and PGN Saturation! (PGN)
- Issue 23 (16 Jul 88)
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- Policy Chief Indicted in Computer Misuse (Owen Blevins)
- Data for Iran airliner discussion (Dave Fiske)
- Re: Data "viruses" (Peter J. Denning, PGN)
- Invitation to visit Disaster Research Center (DRC)
- Passwords on networked systems (Steve Oualline)
- Other ways to manage risks (Dave Fiske)
- Colwich Junction, England, 1986 (Blair P. Houghton)
- Oops -- risks of writing -- SI prefixes (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Issue 24 (18 Jul 88)
- Issue 25 (20 Jul 88 )
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- Possible reason for unexpected Audi 100 acceleration (Lars Lindwall)
- Bell blames computer error as $4 calls are billed for $400 (David Sherman)
- Programming BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) (Eugene Miya)
- Re: The IRS Illinois Experiment (Michael L. McLean, Lars J Poulsen)
- Error rates in barcode data (John Colville)
- PIN on PNB calling card (Nathan K. Meyers)
- Re: Risks of bank ATM cards (George H. Feil)
- Issue 26 (24 Jul 88)
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- Misuse of the UK Data Protection Act (Brian Randell)
- Risks of not running new software in parallel with old (Jon Reeves)
- Computer Error causes bills to be mailed to wrong address (Todd Medlin)
- Penetrating the Phone System (John Markoff via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Electronic IQ Testing (Stephen Colwill)
- Re: IRS and Electronic Filing (Bill Bohrer)
- Re: The IRS Illinois Experiment (Henry Spencer)
- Re: "Man in the loop" (Will Martin)
- Issue 27 (25 Jul 88)
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- A Fishy Story (John Colville)
- Inconsistent Data Taxes Vancouver Woman (Don Chiasson)
- Computer Viruses and RETROVIRUSES (Peter J. Denning)
- Hacking central office switches - too easy? (John T. Powers Jr.)
- "Man in the Loop" (Bill Murray)
- AEGIS (Herb Lin)
- Journal of Computing and Society (Gary Chapman)
- Barcodes (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- The IRS Illinois Experiment (Lenoil)
- "Scratch-and-win"? Try "X-ray-and-win"! (Fred Baube)
- PIN on PNB calling card (Mark Mandel)
- Issue 28 (26 Jul 88)
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- Pentagon testing (Mike Trout)
- Re: "Man in the Loop" (Rodney Hoffman)
- NOVA on risks of fighter technology (Dave Curry)
- Re: Hacking central office switches (Laura Halliday)
- Law student sues micro sysop under ECPA (John Gilmore)
- Scanning instant-win lottery cards (Rich Kulawiec)
- Wanted: Info on Ergonometrics (Emily S. Bryant for Michael Whitman)
- Issue 29 (27 Jul 88)
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- Comparison of hazards (Henry Spencer)
- NASTRAN and the order-of-magnitude bug (David E. Bakken, via Mark Brader)
- "Person In The Loop" (Clifford Johnson)
- "Person In The Loop" -- A BarCode example (David A. Honig)
- Security vs. Cost of Breakin (David A. Honig)
- Hacking central office switches - too easy? (Skip Montanaro)
- Re: PIN on PNB calling card (Roy Smith)
- Re: IRS Illinois Experiment (Allan Pratt)
- Issue 30 (29 Jul 88)
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- NASTRAN and ship steel (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Is vibration a known A300 problem? (Eric Roskos)
- Business Week article on computer security (Woody Weaver)
- Computers can increase privacy, too! (Robert Weiss)
- Viruses - a medical view (John Pettitt)
- Apple viruses -- don't go through the ZLINK (Practor Fime, Dr. Logic, The Byter -- via Greg Prevost via Eric Haines)
- On IRS direct computer access (Steven C. Den Beste)
- Re: doing away with privileged users (Alan Silverstein)
- Issue 31 (8 Aug 88)
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- Software failures cost Britain $900M per year, study claims (Jon Jacky)
- Lightning strikes (twice) (PGN)
- Computer failure delays flights at Logan Airport (PGN)
- A320 & A300 safety, risks of so-called experts (Michael Pilling)
- RISKS of Electronic Cash-registers (Robin Kirkham)
- Computer terminals and dermatology (richard welty)
- Computer System Vulnerabilities (Rodney Hoffman)
- Disaster Exposition (Cliff Stoll)
- Issue 32 (9 Aug 88)
- Issue 33 (10 Aug 88)
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- Cascaded Inference and the Vincennes affair (CFEEHRER)
- "Virus" Bill (Joseph M. Beckman)
- More RISKy ATM's (Dave Horsfall)
- Keeping Autos and Drivers in Suspense (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Airbus Cockpit Alarms (Fred Baube)
- A-320 investigation (Steve Philipson)
- Federal charges brought against accused teen-age hacker (Mike Linnig)
- Orbit 100,000 self-guided "brilliant" weapons, Reagan advised (Jon Jacky)
- Issue 34 (12 Aug 88)
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- "Eye focusing found to be VDT hazard." (Denis Haskin)
- Privacy (Again) (Willis Ware)
- "Virus" Bill (Jerome H. Saltzer, Steven C. Den Beste, Steve Kovner)
- A Visit To the Clinic (Brian Ellis)
- Aegis beaten by binoculars? (Trusting computers and/or people?) (Andy Coupland via Martyn Thomas)
- Airbus (George Michaelson)
- SDI rationalizations (Steve Summit)
- Re: Misidentification of persons as criminal by computers (Haynes)
- Issue 35 (15 Aug 88)
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- Re: Privacy (difficulty of witholding "private" information) (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Keeping Autos and Drivers in Suspense (Win Treese)
- Re: Cascaded inference (G.L.Sicherman)
- Re: "Eye focusing found to be VDT hazard." (Brint Cooper, Anthony G. Atkielski, Jeremy Grodberg)
- Can current CAD/simulation methods handle long-term fatigue analysis? (John R. Galloway)
- ATMs and PIN protection: twice silly victims in Boulder (Gary McClelland)
- Re: Orbit 100,000 self-guided "brilliant" weapons ... (Amos Shapir)
- Issue 36 (17 Aug 88 )
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- Package-deal arguments about VDT's (Philip E. Agre)
- Blue Cube new software problems (Randy Neff)
- Zero-balance dunning letter (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Chicago Disaster Conference (Lee S. Ridgway)
- Car Electronics sensitive for atmospheric interference (Martin Minow)
- 1 in 10 NATO software modules reported incorrect (Jon Jacky)
- Mathematical Error Puts Deficit off by $1.2 billion (PGN)
- Issue 37 (19 Aug 88)
- Issue 38 (22 Aug 88)
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- British vs American safety rules (Henry Spencer)
- Another boundary case bug (Tom Lane)
- Retired couple jolted by $5 million electric bill (David Sherman)
- Hotel could get soaked in lawsuit? (Don Chiasson)
- RISKS contributions (PGN)
- Risks of CAD programs (Alan Kaminsky)
- Can current CAD/simulation methods handle long-term fatigue analysis? (Henry Spencer)
- Vincennes and Cascaded Inference (Carl Feehrer)
- Issue 39 (24 Aug 88)
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- Computers and Gambling (George Michaelson)
- Car engines become target for hackers (George Michaelson)
- Vincennes and Non-Computer Verification (David Collier-Brown)
- Shades of War Games (Doug Mosher)
- Emissions testing risk (Levy)
- Re: British vs. American safety rules (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Structural analysis programs (Stephen D. Crocker)
- Re: Danger of Sensitive Car Electronics (Will Martin)
- Issue 40 (25 Aug 88)
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- Car engines become target for hackers (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Re: IL car emissions testing process and enforcement errors (Will Martin)
- Re: Danger of Sensitive Car Electronics (Henry Schaffer)
- Automobile computer modifications (George Tomasevich)
- Statistical reliability estimation criticized (Jon Jacky)
- Can current CAD/simulation methods handle long-term fatigue analysis? (Gerry Kokodyniak)
- Boundary Cases (James Peterson, John Bruner)
- Mother's maiden name == arbitrary password (Walter Smith)
- Risks of EFT agreements (Doug Claar)
- Chile con backbones (Joe McMahon via Martin Minow from VIRUS-L)
- An item by Mark Garvin on SoftGuard and the Trojan horse "SUG" (from VIRUS-L)
- Issue 41 (31 Aug 88)
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- The Marconi Deaths (Brian Randell)
- $300,000 Automatic Teller Theft (Sort Of) (Henry Cox)
- Car engines become target for hackers (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Blinker failure in 87 Ford Mustang (Tim Thomas)
- Risks of locking systems (Andrew Birner)
- Electronic 1040s (Rodney Hoffman)
- Water seepage stops Computer controlled monorail (George Michaelson)
- Re: Fewer Charges Now Require a Signature (David Sherman)
- Continental Bank Drops Retail Accounts (Patrick A. Townson)
- Issue 42 (1 Sep 88)
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- "Pizzamation" traces phone calls, matches addresses (Jon Jacky)
- Skylab and Sunspot Activity (PGN)
- Denial of Service in Wembley-on-the-Motown (Behrooz Parhami)
- Re: Calculations with wrapped numbers (Mike Linnig)
- Meter reading follies (Chris Jones)
- Re: abnormal bills (Ted Lee)
- Risks of CAD programs (Mike A. Gigante)
- Re: Risks of CAD programs (Sam Crowley)
- Can current CAD/simulation methods handle long-term fatigue analysis? (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Vincennes and Non-Computer Verification (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Computers and Gambling (Jim Frost)
- Automatic Bank Procedures (David A. Honig)
- Issue 43 (2 Sep 88)
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- Statistical reliability estimation criticized (Brian Randell)
- Calling party identification (Mark W. Eichin, TMPLee, anonymous)
- Automotive EMI - a personal experience (Scott C. Crumpton)
- The mental tyranny of a cash register (Steven C. Den Beste)
- Intoximeter risks (Andrew Vaught)
- SSNs, Passports (Chris Hibbert)
- Issue 44 (5 Sep 88)
- Issue 45 (7 Sep 88)
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- Cheater software (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: COMPASS REPORT (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Risks Digest 7.44 (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Display of telephone numbers (Bruce O'Neel)
- Telephones and privacy (C.H. Longmore)
- Gambling with video arcade machines (Mike Blackwell)
- Video Games (Ed Nilges)
- Wembley-on-the-Motown (Jeffrey R. Kell)
- Issue 46 (7 Sep 88)
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- Airbus vs U.K. MOD development standards (Lorenzo Strigini)
- Vincennes: Rules of engagement violated by AI heuristic? (Clifford Johnson)
- Re: Statistical reliability estimation and "certification" (Jon Jacky)
- A Computer Virus Case Goes to Trial (Joe Morris)
- Computers and guns (Gary Sanders)
- Automatic Call Tracing and 911 Emergency Numbers (Gary McClelland)
- Automatic Number ID: Bad Idea! (Andrew Klossner)
- Issue 47 (8 Sep 88)
- Issue 48 (9 Sep 88)
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- COMPASS 88 (Bev Littlewood)
- Safety Engineering (WHMurray)
- Technical naivete revealed by responses to VINCENNES incident (Jon Jacky)
- Vincennes: Rules of engagement violated by AI heuristic? (Clifford Johnson)
- ANI Response (Patrick A. Townson)
- Proposed ANI Enhancement (Rob Boudrie)
- ANI blocking defeats purpose (Bob Philhower)
- Credit Card Loss Woes (Clay Jackson)
- Issue 49 (11 Sep 88)
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- Firmware bugs in Dutch gambling machines (P. Knoppers)
- Soviets See Little Hope of Controlling Spacecraft (Gary Kremen)
- Disinterest in disaster not based on probability estimates (Clifford Johnson)
- What a Ticonderoga Combat System "records" (John Allred)
- High-tech toilets (Robert Dorsett)
- ANI/911 Misconceptions (Dave Robbins)
- Re: Display of telephone numbers on receiving party's phone (Henry Spencer)
- Social content of computer games (Eric Postpischil, Henry Spencer)
- "Viruses Don't Exist" and the Marconi Mysteries... (Mark Moore)
- Issue 50 (12 Sep 88)
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- Computer glitch costs AA $50M ..." (Ken Calvert)
- Risks of Motel Computers (Brint Cooper)
- IFF and the Vincennes (Geoff. Lane.)
- "Single keystroke" (Philip E. Agre)
- `Credit doctors' (Donn Seeley)
- Scientific Safety (WHMurray)
- Bev Littlewood's message in RISKS-7.48 (PGN)
- Calculations with Wrapped Numbers (Mark Brader, Bennet Yee, Jan Wolitzky, Roger Goun)
- Issue 51 (13 Sep 88)
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- Single Character Errors (Geoff. Lane)
- Soviet Mars Probe and single character errors (PGN)
- Stanford Collider Shut Down (PGN)
- Destructive remote controls (Jim Williams)
- Re: computer follies (Michael Greim via Mark Brader)
- IFF and the Vincennes (Dennis Brantly)
- Re: Disinterest in disaster not based on probability estimates (Amos Shapir)
- ``MS-DOS "virus" programs do not exist.'' (David Dyer-Bennet)
- Hiding payoff slot (Peter da Silva)
- Citation for "car engines become target for hackers" (karl)
- Issue 52 (14 Sep 88)
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- Tom Wicker column on computers, Vincennes and SDI (Gary Chapman)
- Computer error in vote tallying (Gary Chapman)
- Risks of Using Computers in Elections (PGN)
- Soviet Space Probe (Dave Feldmeier)
- Re: "Single keystroke" (Matthew P Wiener)
- London Underground problem (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: Destructive Remote Controls (William Curtiss)
- An ANI Compromise (Mike Linnig)
- +++ RISKS Guidelines revisited +++ [<<<PLEASE READ THIS.<>>]
- Issue 53 (15 Sep 88)
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- Hurricane Gilbert (Richard A. Schafer via Matthew P Wiener)
- Phobos I details (Dave Fiske, Jack Goldberg)
- Computers and Elections (Lance J. Hoffman)
- The First "Virus" on Japanese PC (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- Another one-key mishap (Larry Nathanson)
- Re: "Single keystroke" (Warren R. Carithers, Paul Dubuc)
- More computer follies -- how not to design a console (Seth Gordon)
- GNU Emacs & Security (A.Gaynor via Eliot Lear and Geoff Goodfellow)
- Complex phones (Dave Fetrow)
- ISDN/ANI - What one switch vendor told me (Allen L. Chesley)
- Issue 54 (16 Sep 88)
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- CerGro voice mail hacked (John Sheneman)
- Re: Computer error in vote tallying (Andy Frake)
- IEEE approval voting (Don Chiasson)
- Reminder -- ROM is not necessarily nonalterable (Andrew Klossner)
- Colwich Junction (Mark Brader)
- Smoke Inhalation on Amtrak's "Crescent" (Mike Trout)
- Computer assigned hotel rooms (Bruce Wampler)
- Issue 55 (17 Sep 88)
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- The Ethics of Conflict Simulation (Mike Trout)
- Re: Social content of video games (Tim Wood)
- Re: Credit Doctors (Dave Robbins)
- Virus in ROM on commodore 64 (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
- Re: Destructive remote controls (Henry Spencer, Jurjen N.E. Bos)
- Another one-key mishap (Russ Nelson)
- Call for Papers, Invitational Workshop on Data Integrity (Zella Ruthberg)
- Issue 56 (21 Sep 88)
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- Runaway mouse problem in popular commercial WP program (Jon Jacky)
- Wrapping Britain round the Greenwich meridian (Jack Campin)
- Crime and (indifferent) Punishment (Glen Matthews)
- Software Mixup on Soyuz Spacecraft (Karl Lehenbauer)
- RISKS of (Suspected) Crooks Running Dinosaur-DOS (Fred Baube)
- Multiple reservations and single bills (Jacob Hugart via Markus Stumptner)
- Complete info on the Phobos 1 (Kaj Wiik via Ritchey Ruff)
- `Computer programmer convicted of creating "virus"' (Mike Linnig)
- Issue 57 (24 Sep 88)
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- Faulty locks delay prison opening (Henry Cox)
- In the future, risks of purchasing handguns (Alan Kaminsky)
- Olympian RISKS (Henry Cox)
- [Another Willamette] Sewage Spill Linked to Computer (Nike Horton)
- Keep backups, risk job (James F. Carter)
- Computer failure shuts down several thousand telephones (Vince Manis)
- LA Times photo of humorous credit card maybe not so funny (Michael Coleman)
- Risks of Cellular Phones? (Chuck Weinstock)
- Auto Computer Risks (Chuck Weinstock)
- Volvo's and Electromagnetic Interference (Bill Welch)
- Scientific Safety (B.Littlewood)
- Computer Defaults (The Mental Tyrrany of Cash Registers) (Stephen Rickaby)
- Issue 58 (26 Sep 88)
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- Computers in local govt - a burning issue? (Dave Horsfall)
- North Cornwall water supply polluted (Paul Mansbacher via Willie Smith)
- Re: Risks of cellular telephones (Alan Kaminsky, John Gilmore)
- Other voice mailbox risks reported (Bahn)
- Auto Computers vs. radios (Steve Jay)
- State Records via Computer (William Curtiss)
- Damage by Disney 3-D glasses (Andrew Klossner)
- Re: more on killer remote controlls (Greeny)
- Issue 59 (29 Sep 88)
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- Arthur Miller, Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks and Dossiers (Barry C. Nelson)
- EPROM is not necessarily programmed for life (Mike Linnig)
- The Wobbly Goblin (a.k.a. Stealth fighter) (Alan Kaminsky)
- Re: Stanford Collider Shut Down (Matthew P Wiener)
- Re: Is Uncle Sam selling your name to mailing lists? (Greg Pflaum via Mark Brader)
- CPSR 1988 Annual Meeting (Gary Chapman)
- Issue 60 (3 Oct 88)
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- Diving Computers (Brian Randell)
- The Perils of PCs in Public (Dave Horsfall)
- A New Portal for the Offensive -- FAX ATTACKS (Scott Rose)
- Is Uncle Sam selling your name? -- Maybe not. (Mark Brader)
- Re: Is UMASS selling your name to mailing lists? (Andrew Klossner)
- Write your credit card number on a business reply card? (David Sherman)
- Killer terminals (Michael Fischbein, Bill Witts, both via Mark Brader from comp.misc)
- This train didn't need a fireman (earl via Chuck Weinstock)
- Issue 61 (5 Oct 88 )
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- Program Verification: The very idea (Brian Randell)
- RISKS of EPROMS (Daniel Klein)
- Poor user interface -- police system (rpg)
- Cash registers and tax (J Eric Townsend)
- Re: Cash registers (PGN)
- Fly-by-wire, absence thereof [MiG-29] (Henry Spencer)
- Re: A New Portal For The Offensive -- FAX ATTACKS (Greeny)
- Re: Is Uncle Sam selling your name to mailing lists? (Matthew Huntbach)
- More on monitoring Cellular Phones (Mike Linnig)
- Issue 62 (7 Oct 88)
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- Re: Assault on Privacy (Anthony G. Atkielski)
- Interesting article in PCW (Hugh Davies)
- Bridge over troubled pseudo-random generation (PGN)
- Reach Out and Touch Someone... for $650,000 (Henry Cox)
- Computer Security and Voice Mail ... $150,000 (Davis)
- Re: Risks of Cellular Phones (Wes Plouff)
- Self-correcting (obliterating?) time (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Risks in ATMs, Parking, Power outages (Steve Philipson)
- Issue 63 (10 Oct 88 )
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- Re: Killer terminals (Steve Wilson)
- Can't Happen and Antilock Braking Systems (Marcus Barrow and Robert Allen, via Mark Brader)
- ATM's credit check (Amos Shapir)
- Dive Computers (Terry S. Arnold, Henry Spencer)
- Emergency Access to Unlisted Telephone Numbers (Dave Wortman)
- Re: Risks of Cellular Phones (Wes Plouff, Peter Robinson, Walter Doerr)
- Computers, Copyright Law, and the Honor System (a talk) (Mark Mandel)
- Issue 64 (13 Oct 88 )
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- 100 digit primes no longer safe in crypto (Dave Curry)
- Risks of computer controlled doors (Piet van Oostrum)
- NSFnet Backbone Shot (Gene Spafford)
- Intersection of ANI and Voice Mail Risks (Gary McClelland)
- New Feynman book (Eugene Miya)
- High `Rev'ing Volvo (Hartel)
- Stevie Wonder gives an Ear-itating Performance (Marshall Jose, PGN)
- OMB "Blacklist"? (Hugh Miller)
- Re: Ethics of Conflict Simulation (Scott Wilde)
- Issue 65 (15 Oct 88)
- Issue 66 (20 Oct 88 )
- Issue 67 (25 Oct 88)
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- Unplugged Cable Plugs Orlando Traffic (Scot E Wilcoxon)
- Airbus A320 in service (Henry Spencer)
- Computer Literacy (Ronni Rosenberg)
- Belgian PM's email tapped (Rodney Hoffman)
- Police find hacker...and release him (Henry Cox)
- Aegis user interface changes planned (Jon Jacky)
- Programmable Hotel Locks (Allen J. Baum via John Rushby)
- Nausea-inducing frequencies (David Chase)
- Risks in Foundations of Numerical Analysis (John Cherniavsky)
- Takeoff warning systems to be tested (Henry Cox)
- Issue 68 (31 Oct 88)
- Issue 69 (3 Nov 88)
- Issue 70 (3 Nov 88)
- Issue 71 (6 Nov 88 )
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- Send us your Arpanet Virus War Stories (Cliff Stoll)
- Suspect in Virus Case (Brian M. Clapper)
- Internet Virus (Mark W. Eichin)
- RISKS of getting opinions from semi-biased sources (Brad Templeton, PGN)
- Worm/virus mutations (David A. Honig, PGN)
- Worm sending messages to ernie.berkeley.edu? (Jacob Gore)
- Re: "UNIX" Worm/virus (Peter da Silva)
- Comments on vote counting ("Bill Stewart and/or Shelley Rosenbaum")
- Re: A320 update (Henry Spencer)
- Issue 72 (8 Nov 88)
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- The Worm/Virus -- and an Unlearned Lesson (PGN)
- Airline Reservation System Vulnerabilities (Rodney Hoffman)
- Computers in the oldest profession (Dave Horsfall)
- Auto Privacy (Dave Robinson)
- Computer science unencumbered by fears about cutting safety margins (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Re: Risks in Answering Machines (revisited) (Amos Shapir, Gordon Meyer, Bob Felderman, Greeny, William Curtiss)
- Re: CRT noise (Ed Ravin, Geoffrey Welsh)
- Issue 73 (9 Nov 88)
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- The Computer Jam -- How it came about (John Markoff via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Single-bit error transmogrifications (Robert D. Houk)
- New news from Hacker attack on Philips France, 1987 (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Re: Telephone answering machines (William Curtiss)
- Fly by Light (Martyn Thomas)
- WORM/VIRUS DICUSSION:
- Decompiled viruses (Dave Pare)
- Worms/viruses/moles/etc. and the risk of nuclear war (Clifford Johnson)
- The Worm (Vince Manis)
- Issue 74 (10 Nov 88)
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- Air traffic control and safety margins (Steve Philipson)
- UK vehicle-identification systems (Chaz Heritage)
- Re: The Computer Jam -- How it came about (Mark W. Eichin)
- The worm and the debug option (Steven Bellovin)
- Risks of unchecked input in C programs (Geoff Collyer)
- Worms/viruses/moles/etc. and the risks (Scott E. Preece)
- Nonsecure passwords/computer ethics (Christine Piatko, PGN)
- Phone-answerer/ voicemail security & voice-encryption (David A. Honig)
- University computing (James A. Schweitzer)
- Issue 75 (11 Nov 88)
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- Re: Risks of unchecked input in C programs (Bob Frankston)
- NY Computer Laws and the Internet Worm (Dave Bozak)
- Ethics (Stan Stahl, Christine Piatko)
- Comments sought on proposed computer ethics course (Bob Barger)
- UK vehicle-identification systems (Douglas Jones)
- UK vehicle-id systems... Big Brother's new eyes? (Mike Hadjimichael)
- Re: Phone-answerer/ voicemail security & voice-encryption (Jonathan Kamens)
- Re: Ultrasonic emissions a real problem (Travis Lee Winfrey)
- Issue 76 (12 Nov 88)
- Issue 77 (14 Nov 88)
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- WORM/VIRUS:
- UNIX InSecurity (beyond the Virus-Worm) (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Unauthorized Access (Dennis G. Rears)
- re: NY Computer Laws and the Internet Worm (Forrest Colliver)
- Re: NSA attempts to restrict virus information (Steven Bellovin)
- Risks of unchecked input in C programs (Bill Stewart, Bob Frankston)
- Worms & Ethics (Don Wegeng)
- One count, or multiple counts? (Richard Wiggins)
- The RISKS of jargon (Dave Horsfall)
- OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS:
- University of Surrey Hacker (Brian Randell)
- Re: UK vehicle-identification systems (Steven C. Den Beste, Franklin Davis)
- Issue 78 (15 Nov 88)
- Issue 79 (16 Nov 88)
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- Vote Count Error(Kenneth R Jongsma)
- Computer Ethics Class (Leslie Chalmers)
- Teaching "Ethics" (Eric Roskos)
- Re: NSA attempts to restrict virus information (Theodore Ts)
- The FBI Wants You (if you were virus-ized) (Tom Zmudzinski via Dave Curry)
- Access and authorization (Joe Morris)
- Laws of computer evidence (Barry C. Nelson)
- Call for comments on uniformity legislation for software (Conleth S. O'Connell via Alan Kaminsky)
- Issue 80 (18 Nov 88)
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- Computer glitch causes Fresno `flood' (Ira Greenberg via PGN)
- Election Computing (PGN)
- Re: Vote Count Error (Brint Cooper)
- Casiers numeriques! (Digital lockers!) (Marc Vilain)
- Re: Toll Road information collection (David Phillip Oster)
- Risks of non-technologists' reactions to technological failures (Fred McCall on Al Fasoldt)
- Issue 81 (21 Nov 88)
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- Computerized voting problems in Toronto (Amit Parghi)
- NH State Republican Convention Computerized Voting Standard (Kurt Hyde)
- Ethics (Hugh Miller)
- Re: Teaching "Ethics" (Brint Cooper)
- Decompiled Source (Phil Karn)
- Re: Risks of unchecked input in C programs (Henry Spencer)
- Smart Roads (Robert Brooks)
- IFF & UK Toll Roads (Nigel Roberts)
- Re: "Electronic number plates" (Allan Pratt)
- Re: UK vehicle-identification systems (John Haller)
- Issue 82 (23 Nov 88)
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- Troubles with automatic vote counting in Toronto (Mark Brader)
- Risks of remote registration (anonymous)
- The risks of using CACM inserts (Eric Hughes)
- Computer Breakin article [San Antonio] (Maj. Doug Hardie)
- Ethics and Software (Brian Kahin via Ezra Zubrow and Bruce O'Neel)
- Teaching Children Ethics (Homer W. Smith)
- Re: toll road speed checking (Brent Laminack)
- Privacy vs UK vehicle-identification systems (Andrew Klossner)
- RightTouch service (Scott C. Crumpton)
- Cordless Telephones (Walker)
- Issue 83 (28 Nov 88 19:17:04 PST)
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- Tech Report on the Internet Worm (Gene Spafford, PGN)
- Congress plans hearings on the Internet Worm (Jon Jacky)
- Computer Literacy #3 (Ronni Rosenberg)
- More on misuses of computers (PGN)
- Chain letters = next net disaster ? (Ira Baxter)
- Computerized Parking Meters (James Peterson)
- Data verification (Rob Gross)
- Issue 84 (29 Nov 88)
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- "Program Verification: The Very Idea", by J.H. Fetzer (Nancy Leveson et al.)
- Internet Worm Tech Report (Gene Spafford) [Risks of Offering Popular Reports]
- Purchasers of computer systems as causes of the Internet worm (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Bank of America ATMs Hit a Glitch (PGN)
- Corps of Software Engineers? (Henry Spencer)
- Software Uniformity Legislation (Colin M Thomson)
- Zapping shoplifters in Minnesota (Scot E Wilcoxon)
- (Counter-)corrective control systems (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Issue 85 (1 Dec 88)
- Issue 86 (3 Dec 88)
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- Mix-up Impedes Romance (Kevyn Collins-Thompson)
- California Lotto computer crash (Rodney Hoffman)
- Telecommunications, Data Entry, ... - and "Security" (Henry Schaffer)
- Re: Toll Road information collection (Dave Nedde)
- Manufacturers' responsibilities for security (Keith Hanlan)
- Computer Malpractice (David J. Farber)
- Interesting Sidebar on worm and liability (Charles J. Wertz)
- Unfortunate Use of Term "cracker" (T. Andrews)
- Re: "crackers" and "Crackers", " 'jackers", and "snackers" (PGN)
- Issue 87 (5 Dec 88)
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- Value for money? (Jerry Harper)
- Corps of Software Engineers (Gary Chapman)
- DEC Enet and "denial of service" attacks (Willie Smith)
- Re: Nonsecure passwords/computer ethics ( /dev/*mem and superuser ) (Paul E. McKenney, Kendall Collett, PGN)
- "Hackers," "crackers," "snackers," and ethics (Frank Maginnis, PGN, FM, Darrell Long, Alex Colvin)
- Computer Risks Revisited (John Markoff)
- Issue 88 (6 Dec 88)
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- Summary of Software Uniformity Legislation issue (Conleth OConnell)
- Exploiting workers (Dale Worley)
- Re: Automated teller theft (Dr Robert Frederking)
- Speeding detectors (Dave Horsfall)
- Report of hardware "virus" on chips (Gary Chapman)
- Re: Corps of Software Engineers? (Richard Rosenthal)
- Vendor Liability, and "Plain Vanilla" configurations (Bob Estell)
- Talk by Tom Blake on Computer Fraud (Mark Mandel)
- Defining "hackers and crackers" (Gordon Meyer)
- RISKS OF GREATER GARBLE (somewhere in netland)
- Issue 89 (6 Dec 88)
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- Computer Literacy #4 (Ronni Rosenberg)
- Privacy versus honesty/equality (Jerry Carlin)
- Computerized speeding tickets? (Clifford Johnson)
- Subways that "know" who's on board (Marc J Balcer)
- Automatic toll systems -- Dallas (Andrew R. MacBride)
- "Hackers", "crackers", "snackers", and ethics ("Maj. Doug Hardie")
- `hacker' is already a dictionary entry (Joe Morris, Douglas Jones)
- Re: /dev/*mem and superuser (Jeff Makey)
- Issue 90 (8 Dec 88)
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- "Glass cockpit" syndrome / Vincennes (Rodney Hoffman)
- VDTs and premature loss of ability to focus eyes (Rodney Hoffman)
- NEW YORK TIMES reviews novel about computer sabotage (Jon Jacky)
- "hacker" et al. (RAMontante, Russ Nelson, Douglas Monk, Andrew Klossner, Kenneth Siani, Don Mac Phee)
- Unquestioning belief in expert testimony (Matt Bishop)
- Issue 91 (11 Dec 88)
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- More on Proper British Programs (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Vendor Liability, and "Plain Vanilla" configurations (Jay Elinsky)
- Manufacturers' Responsibilities for Security (Lynn R Grant)
- Hacker enters U.S. lab's computers (George Wood via Werner Uhrig)
- Computer Virus Eradication Act of 1988 (Don Alvarez, from VIRUS-L)
- They did it: Speed-Thru Tollbooths (Robert Steven Glickstein)
- Re: Toll Road information collection (Brint Cooper, Scott E. Preece, John Sullivan)
- Re: Subways that "know" who's on board (Chris Hibbert)
- Issue 92 (12 Dec 88)
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- Glass cockpits (Randall Davis)
- "Proper British Programs" (Steve Philipson)
- Information available for a price (Curtis Keller and Bruce O'Neel)
- Toll Road information collection (Steve Philipson)
- Big Bother and Computer Risks (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
- Re: Computer Virus Eradication Act of 1988 (Jonathan Sweedler, Vince Manis)
- Re: Vendor Liability and "Plain Vanilla" configurations (Andy Goldstein)
- Re: "Hackers", "crackers", "snackers", and ethics (Andy Goldstein)
- Hackers (Shatter)
- Issue 93 (13 Dec 88)
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- Overrides of train controls in Japan (Jeff Schriebman)
- Re: Vincennes and over-reliance on automation (Victor Riley)
- Fake ATMs (Rick Adams)
- `Trapdoor' -- War by Computer Virus (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: "Hackers", "crackers", "snackers", and ethics (Douglas Jones)
- Hacking the etymology (Nigel Roberts)
- Re: design intent of worm (Rich Thomson)
- It's NOT a computer! (Martin Minow)
- There's no excuse (Aaron Harber via Martin Minow)
- Issue 94 (15 Dec 88)
- Issue 95 (16 Dec 88)
- Issue 96 (20 Dec 88)
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- Soviets Claim Computer-Virus Shield (PGN)
- UNICEF Belated Greetings (David Andrew Segal and Chris Koenigsberg)
- Computer Ethics or just Ethics (David Clayton)
- Those Who Do Not Learn From History (F. Baube)
- Re: Armed with a keyboard and considered dangerous (F. Baube)
- Re: Computer Virus Eradication Act of 1988 (David Keegel)
- Manslaughter caused by computer error (Herman J. Woltring)
- New EMI Shielding Material (Earl Boebert)
- Issue 97 (21 Dec 88)
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- Software Safety report in UK (Jane Hesketh via Philip Wadler)
- Over-reliance on a single source of data (Cory Kempf)
- Computers vs Scandanavian Design (Bob Frankston)
- Supercomputer used to "solve" math problem (Henry Cox)
- Re: Armed with a keyboard and considered dangerous (Dan Franklin)
- Another article on the dangerous keyboard artist (Jerry Leichter)
- Virus article debunked (Stephen Page)
- Issue 98 (22 Dec 88)
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