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 8
Friday 30 June 1989
Issue 1 (4 Jan 89)-
- A Danish Home Companion (Hugh Miller)
- Tales from the Vincennes tape (Rodney Hoffman)
- Suit filed to force FBI to enforce privacy provisions of ECPA (John Gilmore)
- moRe: Armed with a keyboard ... -- Kevin Mitnick (Rodney Hoffman)
- Computer Chaos Congress 88 report (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Two steps forward, one step back (Jerry Leichter)
- Clapham Junction train crash (Clive Feather via Mark Brader)
Issue 2 (4 Jan 89)-
- Christmas 1988 Decnet Worm -- Counteracted (Cliff Stoll)
- Vincennes and the computer (Steve Philipson, Clifford Johnson)
- Viruses and System Security (a story) (by Dave Platt, submitted to RISKS from rec.humor.funny by Jim Horning and Mark Brader)
- Stallman, Minsky and Drescher on the Internet Worm (via Martin Minow)
- FAA Orders Computer Card Security Systems at 270 Airports (Henry Mensch)
Issue 3 (8 Jan 89)-
- Computer-related accidental death (Gegg)
- Re: Danish Home Companion, Kierkegaard, and Feynman (David E. Leasure)
- "NO CARRIER" (Jef Poskanzer via David Sherman)
- Re: Tales from the Vincennes tape (Maj. Doug Hardie)
- "Hand-written" letters (Gary Chapman)
- Dark Side Hacker, an Electronic Terrorist (Rodney Hoffman)
- The risks of trusting CBS (Phil Goetz)
- Hackers - pure and simple (Travis Marlatte)
- Viruses of all kinds (Travis Marlatte)
- Henry Cox's "Supercomputer used to `solve' math problem" (John C. Bazigos)
Issue 4 (11 Jan 89)-
- M1 Plane crash (Nigel Roberts)
- $4.5 M Child Support Computer to be Scrapped in VA (Dave Davis)
- Eelskin wallets erase mag strips? (Jane D. Smith)
- Firearms Arrive in the Electronics Age (Allen)
- Unused city computer system set aside after 4 years, $4M (Stephen W. Thompson)
- Re: Hackers' Conference versus CBS (John Gilmore)
Issue 5 (11 Jan 89)
Issue 6 (12 Jan 89)-
- Computers and Civil Liberties, article by Gary Marx (Ronni Rosenberg)
- Losing systems (Vince Manis)
- Our blinders [with respect to RISKS] (Don Alvarez)
- Totally secure MAIL & infallible aeroplane warning systems (Nigel Roberts)
- "Disaster Becomes a Matter of Routine" (Steve Philipson)
- Re: Biased coverage of hacker's convention by CBS (Richard Thomsen)
- SAFECOMP89 (Udo Voges)
- Name this book -- for a box of cookies! (Cliff Stoll)
Issue 7 (15 Jan 89)-
- Re: Medical Software (Are computer risks different?) (Jon Jacky)
- Ground proximity warning (Bill Standerfer via Mark Brader)
- Aircraft (Dale Worley)
- You don't know what you've got till it's gone. (Phil Agre)
- Data integrity (Brent Laminack)
- Quality of Evidence (Bill Murray)
- D.Robbins' conclusions (Authenticity of Information) (Allan Pratt)
- Risks of trusting the press (Brad Templeton)
- Risks of Remote Student Registration: Another Interaction Story (Gary McClelland)
- Medical information systems (Jerry Harper)
Issue 8 (15 Jan 89)
Issue 9 (17 Jan 89)-
- Re: Structured Programming (Jim Horning, Steve Bellovin, Brian M. Clapper)
- Re: Losing Systems (David Marks)
- A risk averted (Gideon Yuval)
- Re: M1 Crash -- Risks of misunderstood statistics (Jordan Brown)
- Hacker wants to marry his computer (Cliff Stoll)
- Hackers break open US bank networks (Dave Horsfall)
- National Research Network (Brad Blumenthal)
- Once-writable storage (Steve Philipson)
Issue 10 (18 Jan 89)-
- Speak nicely to your air hostess - or be blacklisted... (HCART)
- (Too) Intelligent Network News mailing (Ralph A. Shaw)
- Information protection in Europe (Steve Bellovin)
- Re: Losing systems -- and Structured Programming (Henry Spencer, Lynn R Grant, Steven C. Den Beste)
- Re: Ground proximity warning (Henry Spencer)
- WORM storage and archival records (RAMontante)
- Re: 3 vs. 2 engined airplanes (Steve Jay)
- Re: Hackers break open US bank networks (Jan Wolitzky)
- Evidence (Bill Murray)
Issue 11 (19 Jan 89)-
- Risks of no backup systems for critical applications (Yoram Eisenstadter)
- Computer malfunction downs traffic lights, one killed, one injured (Scott Campbell)
- Chaos Theory Predicts Unpredictability (PGN)
- China accused of software piracy (PGN)
- Friday the 13th Again (PGN)
- Computer error locks out politicians (D. Steele)
- Re: Losing Systems (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Technical brilliance v. commercial acumen (Jerry Harper)
- National Credit Information Network (Sidney Marshall)
- Re: Ethics of the Internet (John Gilmore)
- RISKs of reading newspapers: Credit card fraud is not hacking. (Mike Van Pelt)
- Counting engines (Don Alvarez)
Issue 12 (20 Jan 89)-
- Risk of using your own name (Gary T)
- Risks in NBS time by radio (computer malfunction downs lights) (Clements)
- Computer-related accidents in British chemical industry (Jon Jacky)
- Re: Losing Systems (Henry Spencer, Donald Lindsay, Keane Arase)
- Failure of Software Projects (WHMurray)
- Re: Structured Programming (David Collier-Brown, Jerry Schwarz)
- Discrete probability and airplanes (Mike Olson)
- Re: Chaos theory (Phil Goetz)
Issue 13 (22 Jan 89)-
- Gigabit superhighway/worms (Vint Cerf)
- IAB Ethics DRAFT (Vint Cerf)
- Space shuttle computer problems, 1981--1985 (Jon Jacky)
- F-16 that can't stall falls from sky (Scot E Wilcoxon)
- Re: China accused of software piracy (Jim Olsen)
- Losing systems (Dale Worley, Chris Lewis)
- Re: Structured Programming (John Mainwaring, Mark Rosenstein, Steve Pozgaj)
Issue 14 (24 Jan 89)-
- Re: Medical Software -- testing and verification (Dave Parnas)
- NSA and the Internet (Vint Cerf)
- Re: Losing systems (Geoff Lane)
- Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) (Brian M. Clapper)
- Probability and Product Failure (Geoff Lane) [lack of independence]
- Probabilities and airplanes (Robert Colwell, Mike Olson, Dale Worley)
Issue 15 (25 Jan 89)-
- More video piracy (Dave Curry)
- Computerized records of employee informers (Mike Trout)
- Censorship and computers (Anthony Finkelstein)
- Re: Object Oriented Programming (Benjamin Ellsworth)
- Structuring large systems (John Spragge)
- About non-redundant redudant systems (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
- Engine-count and the Spirit of St. Louis (Michael McClary)
- Counting engines (Jordan Brown)
- Re: Space shuttle computer problems, 1981--1985 (Henry Spencer)
- Revised Computer Ethics Course Proposal (Bob Barger)
Issue 16 (26 Jan 89)-
- Cable video piracy (anonymous)
- F-111 downed by EMI? (Gordon Davisson)
- F-16 that can't stall falls from sky (Mike Tanner)
- Re: Probability and Product Failure [common mode failures] (Bruce Hamilton)
- Discrete probability and airplanes (Dave Settle)
- Micro-cellular phones (Steven C. Den Beste)
- Looking for Computer Folklore (Karla Jennings via Vernard C. Martin)
Issue 17 (27 Jan 89)
Issue 18 (30 Jan 89)-
- Hong Kong computer horse betting (George Moore)
- Keycard badges vs. anti-shoplift systems (Bruce Hamilton)
- Bank Fraud (Peter Golde)
- Crashing a PDP-11/40 (Computer Folklore) (Jeff Makey)
- Sprint to the Finish? (Steve Philipson)
- Information Security/Computer Crime Statistics (Stan Stahl)
- Re: ELIZA and Joe Weizenbaum (Bernie Cosell, Bob Krovetz)
- Virus conference hosts software swap meet (Robert Lee Wilson Jr)
- Structured Programs, Project Failures (Charles J. Wertz)
- Losing Systems (Mike Albaugh)
Issue 19 (1 Feb 89)-
- Massachusetts limits disclosure of driver's license database. (Jon Jacky)
- Dead Code Maintenance (Douglas Jones)
- Re: Structured Programming (Eric Roskos)
- Random Thoughts on Redundancy (Earl Boebert)
- One last word about probabilities (Dr Robert Frederking)
- Independence and probabilities (PGN)
- Counting Engines (Mike Bell)
- Talk by Roy Saltman on computerized vote tallying (Charles Youman)
Issue 20 (5 Feb 89)-
- FAA and flying under pressure in Alaska (PGN)
- New use for Credit Cards (?) (Leslie Chalmers)
- Computer Chaos in Burnaby (Stuart Lynne)
- Swedish fighter plane crash (Otto J. Makela)
- Re: Massachusetts limits disclosure of driver's license database. (Jerome H Saltzer)
- "Computer Literacy Education" Report Available (Ronni Rosenberg)
- Engineering vs. Programming (Lynn R Grant)
- Re: Structured Programming (Al Arsenault, Allen Gordon, Dan Franklin)
Issue 21 (5 Feb 89)-
- `User friendliness' tradeoffs can lead to total nonsecurity (Eric S. Raymond)
- Capturing a password (Phil Karn)
- Collisions in DES (Jean-Jac. Quisquater)
- Re: Crashing a PDP-11/40 [static electricity] (Jeffrey Mogul)
- ATM error (Douglas Jones)
- Anecdotes: ping-pong robot; CCC breaks net (Konrad Neuwirth)
- Request for information: Health Hazards of Office Laser Printers (Keith Dancey)
- Re: Structured Programming (Michael J. Chinni)
Issue 22 (8 Feb 89)-
- B-1B bomber avionics problems (Jon Jacky)
- Risks of public terminal rooms (Roy Smith)
- Using barcodes for road toll payments (Phillip Herring)
- ATM error - in Europe (John O'Connor)
- Computing as a Discipline (Peter J. Denning)
- Cryptic status displays, and GIGO (Mark Brader)
- Re: `User friendliness' and forgotten root passwords (Shannon Nelson, Ge' Weijers, smv)
- Health Hazards of Office Laser Printers (Hal Murray, Jeffrey Mogul)
- Re: Keycard badges vs. anti-shoplift systems (Craig Leres)
Issue 23 (9 Feb 89)-
- Self-Taught Space Craft (Brian Randell)
- Still a few bugs in the system, as they say (Mark Brader)
- Multi-gigabuck information "theft" (Mark Brader)
- Risks of letting key people leave employment? (David A. Curry)
- Phone Risks (Greeny)
- Virus Technical Review (David J. Ferbrache)
- Re: WORM storage and archival records (Curtis Abbott)
Issue 24 (13 Feb 89)-
- Massive counterfeit ATM card scheme foiled (Rodney Hoffman, PGN)
- Computer blamed for 911 system crash (Rodney Hoffman)
- Risks of Selective Service (Rob Elkins)
- Re: Engines and probabilities (Barry Redmond, Robert Frederking)
- Re: Structured programming (Jim Frost)
- Re: Engineering vs. Programming (John Dykstra, Henry Spencer, Robert English, Shawn Stanley)
Issue 25 (14 Feb 89)-
- Authenticity in digital media -- electronic time travel (Steve Philipson)
- Bogus Frequent Flyer Scheme (Kenneth R. Jongsma [and Dave Curry])
- Automatic targeting for Maverick missile (Jon Jacky)
- Economics, Engineering and Programming (Jerry Leichter)
- RE: ATM Error in Europe (Udo Voges)
- Another bank error (Hsiu-Teh Hsieh)
- Static Electricity crash (Seth K)
- Legal clamp-down on Australian "hackers" (Neil Crellin)
- MIT virus paper available for anonymous ftp (Jon Rochlis)
- Prospectus for "Computer Viruses" (J Cordani)
Issue 26 (15 Feb 89)-
- "$15 Million Computer Dud Baffles Udall" (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Re: Computer blamed for 911 system crash (Rodney Hoffman, Paul Blumstein)
- Selling who-called-the-800-number data (Bob Ayers)
- PIN? Who needs a PIN? (Alan Wexelblat)
- Door Sensors and Kids (Eddie Caplan)
- Risks of misunderstanding probability and statistics (Tom Blinn)
- Why you can't "flip" bits on a WORM disc (Daniel Ford)
- Credit Checker & Nationwide SS# Locate (David Andrew Segal)
- Re: Authenticity in digital media (Pete Schilling)
- Re: multi-gigabuck information "theft" (Jeff Makey)
Issue 27 (16 Feb 89)
Issue 28 (19 Feb 89)-
- Continuing problems with WWMCCS command-and-control network (Jon Jacky)
- US missile-warning radar endangers friendly aircraft (Jon Jacky)
- Power failure problems (John Sinteur)
- The Risks of Going on Vacation (Jim Carson)
- Re: Faking Internet mail (Peter Scott)
- Multi-gigabuck value of information theft denied (Mark Brader)
- Re: multi-gigabuck information "theft" (David Chase)
- Re: Authenticity in digital media (Doug Krause)
- Digital doctoring of images (Richard Wiggins)
- PIN? Who needs a PIN? (Bill Mahoney)
Issue 29 (22 Feb 89)-
- Overloaded computer delays (overworked) commuters (Steve Graham)
- Chicago Phone Freak Gets Prison Term (Patrick Townson via Cliff Stoll)
- Computer Confinement (Joseph M. Beckman)
- Police officers sentenced for misuse of PNC (Nigel Roberts)
- The word "virus" causes panic (Nigel Roberts)
- Re: Faking Internet mail (Steve Bellovin, Kevin S. McCurley)
Issue 30 (24 Feb 89)-
- "Do you know who's reading your medical records?" (PGN)
- Wells Fargo ATM outage (PGN)
- New York 540 Phone Number Scam (John Murray)
- 900 "confession" number (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Re: Chicago Phone Freak Gets Prison Term (Rich Salz)
- Reach Out and Spy on Someone (Peter Scott)
- Power failure problems (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Photographs as evidence (re: digital editing, etc.) (Ernest H. Robl)
- Stanford and rec.humor.funny (Martin Minow)
Issue 31 (27 Feb 89)-
- Bank fraud was "easy" (Stephen Page)
- Men accused of `hacker' crime (Michael C Polinske)
- Stanford bboard censorship (Les Earnest, John McCarthy, Jerry Hollombe)
- Computer writing coach / friend (Rodney Hoffman)
- British Computer Society policy on safety-critical systems (Martyn Thomas)
- Reach out and spy (gls)
- Risks of Running a Hotel (Chuck Weinstock)
- Singing in the Rain (Kent Borg)
- [RISKS BARFMAIL] (PGN)
Issue 32 (1 Mar 89)-
- RISKS-LIST: On Risks of Running RISKS (PGN)
- Gripen prototype crash (Dave Newkirk, Kenneth R. Jongsma, Karl Lehenbauer)
- A pilot's account of a multi-engine failure (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Knowing probability just doesn't make a difference (Sumit Dongre)
- A new ATM risk: bureaucracy (Laura Halliday)
- IBM's claims for error-free code (Robert Lee Wilson Jr)
- Re: discussion of computer viruses (Brent Laminack)
- Re: [RISKS BARFMAIL] (Robert J. Reschly Jr.)
Issue 33 (2 Mar 89)-
- Viruses and the comics (Jack Holleran, Hope Munro)
- Hacking in the movies -- Working Girl (Martin Minow)
- Re: British Computer Society policy statement (Clifford Johnson)
- Hacking and Computer Fraud in the U.K. (Brian Foster)
- Re: Knowing probability just doesn't make a difference... (Henry Spencer)
- Reach Out and Spy on Someone (Pete McVay, Douglas Jones, Emily Lonsford)
- New Sprint Card (Will Martin)
- US missile-warning radar endangers friendly aircraft (Ken Arnold)
- Error free code and ancient systems (Bill Francis)
Issue 34 (2 Mar 89)
Issue 35 (6 Mar 89)-
- NASA to replace top-level personnel with Expert Systems (Dave Davis)
- A Touching Faith in Technology (Ruaridh Macdonald)
- Computer catches thief (Randall [!] Davis)
- Computer espionage: 3 `Wily Hackers' arrested (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Re: West German Hackers (Dana Kiehl)
- The word "hacking" (Geoffrey Knauth, Rao V. Akella)
- 747 Simulators Can't Simulate Flight 811 Failures (Scot E Wilcoxon)
- Viruses in the comics (Peter Merel, Tom Parker, Len Levine, Guy Robinson)
Issue 36 (7 Mar 89)-
- Malicious Hacking (Gene Spafford)
- News from the KGB/Wily Hackers (Klaus Brunnstein)
- The fight to purify the word "hacker" is lost (Steve Bellovin, Brad Templeton)
- Dangers of Spy programs (John ffitch)
- Re: reach out and spy on someone (Vandenberg)
- Social effects of viruses (Don Alvarez)
- Previous message to RISKS misunderstood (John Sinteur) [Power failure problems]
Issue 37 (11 Mar 89)-
- Computer blunders blamed for massive student loan losses (Rodney Hoffman)
- Prisoner access to confidential drivers' records (Rodney Hoffman)
- Ethics Question (Randall Neff)
- Risk of congenial machinery (Robert Steven Glickstein)
- Limitless ATM's (Geoff Kuenning)
- Re: Faking internet mail (Stephen Wolff)
- Virus detector goes wrong (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: News from the KGB/Wily Hackers (Hans Huebner = `pengo')
- UK archive service [for European RISKS readers] (Dave Ferbrache)
Issue 38 (15 Mar 89 )-
- Water Bug - Computerization Messing Up Yacht Race (Robert Horvitz)
- Sunspots & Communications (Cliff Stoll, PGN)
- pengo and the Wily hackers (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Toshiba DOS 3.3 Backup deletes files (Fiona M Williams)
- Star Trek computer virus (Kevin Rushforth)
- Re: NASA to replace top-level personnel with Expert Systems (Henry Spencer)
- Pushbutton Banking (Lynn R Grant)
- Risks of telephone access to your bank account (Michael McClary)
- Limitless ATMs (John Murray)
- Re: Prisoner access to confidential drivers' records (Scot E Wilcoxon)
- Risks of Human Emulating Machinery (Jon Loux)
- New Sprint Card (Ken Harrenstien)
- Incoming-call identification (David Albert)
Issue 39 (16 Mar 89)-
- Solar flares vs. garage door openers (Steve Bellovin, Peter Scott)
- Sunspots and Power Lines (John Coughlin)
- Man-machine interfaces and perception-impaired people (David A. Honig)
- Re: reverse engineering of type fonts (Herman J. Woltring)
- Re: Ethics Question (Marc Mengel)
- Re: Toshiba DOS 3.3 Backup deletes files (Jay Elinsky)
- Re: IBM's claims to omnipotence (Dr Robert Frederking)
- Re: Pushbutton Banking (Tom Coradeschi)
Issue 40 (17 Mar 89)-
- Re: Sunspots & Communications (Jordan Brown, Gasbarro)
- Ethics of Copying Fonts (Jerry Schwarz)
- Policy Statement Request (Dave Grisham)
- Re: Incoming-call identification (Brint Cooper)
- Risks of telephone access to your bank account (Brint Cooper)
- Limitless ATMs (Emily H. Lonsford)
- Re: A Touching Faith in Technology (Henry Spencer)
- Risks of helpfulness (Henry Spencer)
- Work monitoring survey (Goun)
- Faking Internet mail (Robert C. Lehman)
- Spying on or intercepting UUCP mail (David Sherman)
- Hackers, cartoons, and computers (Doug Claar)
Issue 41 (20 Mar 89)-
- 20+ year, $100+ million Army software project (Jon Jacky)
- Formal methods to be applied in Australian railroad switching (Jon Jacky)
- Error in updating new specifications for call-routing (Pertti Jarvinen)
- Risks of Registering Shareware (A. Lester Buck)
- Risks of helpfulness (Jerome H Saltzer)
- Remote Smart-Cards (Ian W Moor)
- Re: so-called multi-gigabuck theft of information (Mark Brader)
- Re: NASA to replace top-level personnel with Expert Systems (Robert English)
- Meter Readers an Endangered Species? (David K. Black)
- Security of Electronic Mail (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Star Trek computer virus (Colin P.)
Issue 42 (20 Mar 89)
Issue 43 (21 Mar 89)-
- Outdated codes made US missiles useless (Henry Cox)
- Risks of dying batteries (Henry Cox)
- Things to do with a computer... (Joe Morris)
- Possible Cancer Risks from Cellular Phones? (Mike Trout)
- Supreme Court and Copyrights (ark)
- Mitnick plea bargain (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: Risks of telephone access to your bank account (Phil R. Karn)
- Internet Security Plans (Vin McLellan)
- Duplicates due to network lossage? (*Hobbit*)
Issue 44 (21 Mar 89)-
- Computer-Justified Citations (Kevin Driscoll)
- Vehicle ID tags, cont'd (Steve Smaha)
- Ethics question re fonts (Michael Harrison, Elliott S Frank)
- Risks of shirt-pocket size floppy disks (Roy Smith)
- Re: Pushbutton Banking (Robert English)
- Credit card magstripe-encoded pictures (Peter Scott)
- Re: Remote Smart-Cards, English and Welsh soccer (Craig Cockburn, Dick King)
- Re: Risks of Registering Software (Bill Murray)
- Collecting for Shareware (Bill Murray)
Issue 45 (25 Mar 89)-
- Wells Fargo Deposits Slip (PGN)
- Hospital Viruses (Dennis Steinauer and Joe Morris)
- Optical Scanning of Handwritten Purchase Orders (Hiram Clawson)
- Credit card magstripe-encoded pictures (Mike Trout)
- Cellular phones and health (anonymous, Dale Worley, R. Scott Truesdell)
- New method (risk) of demagnetizing floppies (Douglas B. Robinson)
- Microwave ovens (Don Chiasson)
- Corrections to Internet Security Plans (David M. Balenson)
Issue 46 (29 Mar 89)-
- B-1B wept-swing swept-wing (PGN)
- Soviets Lose 2nd Mars Probe (PGN)
- Satellite failure due to unremoved lens Cap (PGN)
- Technology strikes again -- Dodge Spirits and Dodge Fever (Matt Fichtenbaum)
- Suing over runaway computer systems (Rodney Hoffman)
- Virus Hits Hospital Computers (Rodney Hoffman)
- Prank Virus Warning Message (Bruce N. Baker)
- Subversive bulletin boards (Eric Percival)
- UK Computer Threat Research Association (David J. Ferbrache)
- Will the Hubble Space Telescope Compute? (Paul Eggert)
- The Airbus disaster and Ada (Ted Holden via Bob Burch via jpff)
- DIAC-90 -- Call for Papers (Douglas Schuler)
Issue 47 (1 Apr 89)-
- Summary of recent news briefs on "hacker" activity (Anonymous)
- "Free Fall" -- new book on 1983 Air Canada near-disaster (Rich Wales)
- Farm worker killed by conveyor (Walter Roberson)
- Hackers dictionary in Japanese? (Les Earnest)
- Undetected Monitoring Programs and Privacy Rights (Donald B. Wechsler)
- Re: Ada and Airbus (John Knight via A. Blakemore and Mike Linnig)
- Galactic Hacker Party (Rop Gonggrijp)
- Virus in PKARC software (Bob Kozlarek via Robert Casey via A-N-Onymouse)
- Computer Documentation Course Queries (Stephen W. Thompson)
Issue 48 (3 Apr 89)-
- BMW's DWS system (Brian Randell)
- Risks of insomnia (Roger H. Goun)
- VDT Risks? No, Lead pipe cinch. (F. Baube)
- Aircraft running out of fuel in flight (Dale Worley)
- Yet another round of Airbus A320 discussions (Joe Morris)
- Daylight savings change requires computer shutdown (Walter Roberson)
- Elevator accident kills 13 year old (Walter Roberson)
- Re: "Free Fall" -- new book on 1983 Air Canada near-disaster (Henry Spencer)
- Newspapers' computer access to public records (Wm Randolph Franklin)
- Computers and Property Revaluation: It's Great in Dayton, Ohio (John Karabaic)
- Credit card magstripe-encoded pictures (Brian Randell)
- Using Pre-release Software (David A. Honig)
- Computer say, go to jail (Clifford Johnson)
- Accidental erasure of magnetic media used by the public (Peter Jones)
Issue 49 (5 Apr 89)
Issue 50 (5 Apr 89)-
- Mechanical Horse Racing (Mike Trout)
- Elevator death update (Walter Roberson)
- Re: Elevator accident kills 13-year-old (Eric Roskos)
- Federal Pay System botch-up (Tim Shimeall)
- NYTimes business readers shown the future (Mitchell Charity)
- Newspapers and access to public records (J. Eric Townsend)
- High-Tech Locomotives (Mark Brader)
- Military software (Henry Spencer)
- Authenticating Internet mail (Peter Scott)
- Advertising vs the net (Brian Kantor via Skip Montanaro)
- Gorillas in the Missed Identification (Joe Morris, Jay Elinsky, Eddie Caplan)
Issue 51 (6 Apr 89)-
- Valdez Autopilot (Glenn Lea)
- The National Weather Service automation vs. aviation (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Authenticating Internet mail (Jon Rochlis)
- Mechanical horse racing (Brad Hutchings)
- Re: Airbus A320 article (Dan Swinehart, Robert Dorsett, PGN)
- More on 1983 Air Canada near-disaster (Rich Wales)
- ATM loss - no one believes the customer. (jrl)
- BMW Risks (Peter Kendell)
- BMW Road Warmers (Dennis Vadura)
Issue 52 (9 Apr 89)-
- Valdez follow-up... (Dean Riddlebarger)
- Phobos (Bob Morris)
- Presumption of innocence -- for computers (Peter da Silva)
- 1988 Toronto election (Mark Brader)
- California's anti-fax-ad bill (David M. Gursky)
- Man bytes dog (Charles Youman )
- Re: Elevator accident kills 13-year-old (John Luce via John (J.G.) Mainwaring)
- Need DRAMs? (Mike Raffety)
- Cellular telephones (Steven C. Den Beste)
- CDC operating system has passwords in batch files (Gerard Stafleu)
- Cornell Chronicle coverage of Robert T. Morris (Manny Farber via Dave Farber)
Issue 53 (10 Apr 89)-
- Product Recalls Due to Software Error (B.J. Herbison) [Medical]
- Airliners running out of fuel in mid-flight (Jerome H. Saltzer)
- Good press in Flying (Howard Gayle)
- Re: More on 1983 Air Canada near-disaster (Henry Spencer)
- PC causes multiuser host to drop off the network (Patrick Wolfe)
- Auto Risks (Robert Dorsett)
- Risk of Living in Nova Scotia (Matthew Wall)
- Otis elevator software (Eric Roskos)
- Elevator Units (Don Alvarez)
- Nuclear-powered vessels (Steve Bellovin)
- (Deep-seated) Presumption of innocence -- for computers (ephraim)
- Re: Authenticating Internet mail (John Labovitz)
- Passwords in plaintext (Brian McMahon)
- Re: Cellular telephones (Eric Thayer, David Collier-Brown)
Issue 54 (11 Apr 89)-
- More on Otis 401 elevators (Dave Horsfall)
- PC crashing network: blame the error message (Mark Mandel)
- Election tampering and illegal surveillance (Brad Sherman)
- Computer CAN attempt to defraud you (Peter van der Linden)
- Infallible Computers (Dave Curry)
- Re: Airliners running out of fuel in mid-flight (Alan Marcum)
- Re: More on 1983 Air Canada near-disaster (Alan Marcum)
- Airbus A320 article plus some comments (Greg Rose)
- Re: CDC operating system has passwords in batch files (Steve Lidie)
- NSA and Not Secure Agencies (Curtis Spangler)
- California's anti-fax-ad bill... (Mark Mandel)
Issue 55 (12 Apr 89)-
- Informing the Public about Risks (Marc Rotenberg)
- Central Locking Systems (J M Hicks)
- Social Security Administration Verifying SSNs (David Gast)
- Not Secure Agencies (Hugh Miller)
- Re: Cellular Telephones (Eric Roskos)
- Risk to Sun 386i users (Mike O'Connor via Alan Wexelblat)
- Infallible Computers and Perry Mason (Brinton Cooper, Ephraim Vishniac)
- Air Canada and fuel-proof gauges (Robert Dorsett, John Hascall)
Issue 56 (13 Apr 89)-
- Student grants debited instead of credited (John Harper)
- Electronic Truant Officers (Mike McNally)
- "Virus" arrest in New Jersey (A. Michael Berman)
- H.D. Thoreau on Risks of Believing Computations (David A Honig)
- Knowledge and Power (David Guaspari)
- "Malicious" computers? (Clifford Johnson)
- Re: Infallible Computers and Mason (Jack Holleran)
- HP MPE V/E Batch Security (Brown)
- More on the Sun 386i security hole (David C. Kovar via Alan Wexelblat)
Issue 57 (15 Apr 89)-
- H.D. Thoreau on Risks of Believing Computations (Jim Haynes)
- Airbus 320 (Brian Randell)
- 1,000 Pilots Face ban (Dermot Williams)
- RFI and elevators (Robert A. Morris)
- Electronic Truant Officers (Carolyn M. Kotlas, Michael R. Hoffman, Ed Robertson)
- Re: Computer CAN attempt to defraud you (Hugh Davies)
- Computer maliciousness (Peter da Silva)
Issue 58 (17 Apr 89)-
- Cruise Missiles with "Polish" (Ralph Vartabedian via Nancy Leveson)
- Computerized parts supply (Jim Haynes)
- RFI and Elevators (Martin Ewing)
- Aegis the almighty (Henry Spencer)
- Thoreau and Navigation (Eric Roskos)
- Risks of automatic order entry in restaurants (Daniel Klein)
- Re: Most Accurate Clock (Clay Jackson)
- Fuel Management/Mis-management (Mike Brown)
- Companies mask ANI to calm callers (Bob Wallace via GEBM)
- The dangers of electric windows (Martin Cooper)
- Careless tape transfer procedures (Peter Jones)
Issue 59 (18 Apr 89)-
- More on the British Midlands 737 crash (Robert Dorsett)
- Computers and Food Poisoning [anonymous]
- The dangers of electric seatbelts (was: windows) (Clements)
- Re: The dangers of electric windows (Daniel Klein)
- Newspaper Cartoons and Computer Infallibility (G. McClelland)
- Re: Thoreau and Navigation (David A Honig)
- "Journalist Vigilantes" (Walter Roberson)
- Hazards of RF near electronic controls (Dana Myers)
Issue 60 (19 Apr 89)-
- Hillsborough: Risks of using Computers at Stadium Turnstiles (Brian Tompsett)
- Risks of plaintext data (Hugh Miller)
- Computer voting at Stanford (Scott Seligman)
- Re: Computerized attendance (Sean Fagan)
- More Auto-Seatbelt Horrors (Thor Simon)
- Mb = 1024? 1000? (Walter Roberson)
- Re: Newspaper Cartoons and Computer Infallibility (Will Martin)
Issue 61 (20 Apr 89)-
- Alleged Computer-aided fraud (Rodney Hoffman)
- Black box for automobiles (Anthony Stone)
- References to smoking and computer failure? (David A Rasmussen)
- The danger of testing (re RFI and elevators) (Dave Collier-Brown)
- Reaction to John Luce's letter on electronic elevators (Peter Jones)
- Industry not protecting privacy (Rodney Hoffman)
- Sun386i security problem update (Ed DeHart)
- Writing on "write-protected" disks (David M. Zielke and Peter Jones)
Issue 62 (24 Apr 89)-
- Release SkyDome, Release 0.0 (Mark Brader)
- Risks of plaintext data (II) (Hugh Miller)
- Computer orders for phone books (Mark Brader)
- ATM's used to track accused killer (Al Stangenberger)
- Computer Voting (Chris Davis)
- Re: Most Accurate Clock (David Schachter)
- Writing on write-protected disks (Leigh L. Klotz, Kenneth R. van Wyk, Phil Goetz, Dimitri Vulis, Henry Spencer, Dave Kemp, Rich Sims)
Issue 63 (25 Apr 89)-
- More 737 Computer Problems (Brian Randell)
- Cockpit Computers Defy Pilots (Robert Dorsett)
- Common thread in recent postings: People (Ian)
- Smoke vs. disc drives (John Shipman)
- Use of "Standard" on sensitive applications (Terry S. Arnold)
- Computer Threat Research Association (UK) (David J. Ferbrache)
- ATMs used to track accused killer (Steve Bellovin)
- Re: Most Accurate Clock (Don Watrous)
Issue 64 (26 Apr 89)-
- DARPA studying high-tech surveillance for drug wars (Jon Jacky)
- Re: SKYDOME (Michael Wagner)
- Cursing the Darkness? (Ronald J Bottomly)
- Data Checking at Osco's (Scott Turner)
- Re: Common thread in recent postings: People (Hugh Miller, John Karabaic)
- Re: Use of "Standard" ... (Pete Schilling, Steve Bellovin)
Issue 65 (27 Apr 89)-
- Northwest 255 -- Another Disconnected Alarm story? (Jerry Leichter)
- All addressed up with the wrong place to go (Jerry Leichter)
- Jukebox foolishness (Robert J. Reschly Jr.)
- Electronic Seat-Belts (Marc W. Mengel)
- Mitnick plea bargain rejected by judge as too lenient (Rodney Hoffman)
- Spider-Man's SSN and computer limitations (Brad Blumenthal)
Issue 66 (4 May 89)-
- Standards == nothing (Rich Neitzel)
- Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System with "no bugs" (Henry Schaffer)
- Nuclear reactor knocked offline by 2-way radio in control room (Wm. Randolph Franklin)
- B-2 builders: Prototype not needed (Long Article) (Mark Thompson via Stephen W. Thompson)
- American Express is watching... (Sundar Iyengar)
- Telephone line security (David C. Kovar)
- COMPASS Program (John Cherniavsky)
Issue 67 (7 May 89)-
- Space software problems (Henry Edward Hardy) [Magellan, Phobos I]
- Self-diagnostics in airplanes (David Robinson)
- B-2 Builders: Prototype not needed (Dave Parnas, Bill Murray, Henry Spencer)
- Standards == Nothing (Dave Parnas, Bob Estell, Henry Spencer)
- Risks to contact lenses wearers from computer ventilators (Periklis Tsahageas)
- Re: Telephone line physical security (William M. Bumgarner, Mike Akre)
- Power lines and computers (George Michaelson)
- Not using computer helps trapping of error (Konrad Neuwirth)
Issue 68 (8 May 89)-
- Low-Probability / High-Consequence Accidents -- and the Midland 737? (PGN)
- "Probing Boeing's crossed Connections" (Werner Uhrig)
- An Atlantis spacecraft computer problem resolved nicely (PGN)
- "Life's Risks: Balancing Fear Against Reality of Statistics" (Marc Rotenberg, Jerry Leichter)
- Hear No Evil (Kevin Driscoll)
- Computer Ethics Course/Resource Volunteers Wanted (long) (Bob Barger)
Issue 69 (10 May 89)
Issue 70 (12 May 89)-
- Computers in mathematical proofs (Henry Spencer)
- Re: An Atlantis spacecraft computer problem resolved nicely (Yves Deswarte)
- Company sued for "computerized" firing scheme (Emily H. Lonsford)
- Logged on and Unattended (NOT FROM Jon Orseck)
- Dot Matrix == valid and LaserReceipts (Mike Albaugh)
- Computer generated checks (John McLachlan, Darin McGrew)
- Auto electronics and Radio Transmitters don't mix! (Peter Morgan Lucas)
- Mitnick update (Rodney Hoffman)
- TRW & SSA (Michael J. Tighe)
- Centralized Railroad Dispatching (Chuck Weinstock)
Issue 71 (17 May 89)
Issue 72 (21 May 89)
Issue 73 (22 May 89)
Issue 74 (26 May 89)-
- Aegis, Vincennes, and the Iranian Airbus (PGN interpreting Matt Jaffe)
- Anti-lock brake system failure - fail-safe? (Jay Elinsky)
- Pleasure boat database helps thieves (Howard Gayle)
- SAGE-BOMARC risks (Les Earnest)
- SABRE disaster caused by "core corruption" (Andrew Birner)
- Computer Intrusion Network in Detroit (Dave Curry)
- Robert T. Morris suspended from Cornell (Dave Curry)
Issue 75 (30 May 89)-
- Mariner I -- no holds BARred (PGN)
- Another false incarceration (PGN)
- Perfecting Peopleware (Bob Morris)
- Aegis and the Iranian Airbus shootdown (Steve Philipson)
- Radio Frequency interference (J. Michael Berkley)
- SRI attacked by kamikaze squirrels? (David L. Edwards)
- Computer electrocutes chess player who beat it! (Gene Spafford)
Issue 76 (31 May 89)-
- State computer system scrapped (Davis)
- Swedish library loan data to become secret (Howard Gayle)
- SABRE (Bill Murray)
- Strange Customs Service Clock Department (Willis H. Ware)
- No power lunch, just no-power crunch (after the squirrel's over) (PGN)
- Re: Computer electrocutes chess player who beat it! (David Chase)
- Five admit automated teller scam (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: Kevin Mitnick (Kenneth Siani)
Issue 77 (8 Jun 89)-
- Second elevator death (Walter Roberson)
- Electronic card spots hooligans (Martyn Thomas)
- Big Brother is watching your magnetic card (Amos Shapir)
- May you live in interesting times (High-tech Chinese revolution)(Martin Minow)
- "Core-Walker" that crashed SABRE (Rodney Hoffman)
- Airbus A320 (Brian Randell)
- Re: Power outages (Peter Scott)
- One of Cliff Stoll's `Wily Hacker' dead (suicide?) (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Computer Virus Catalogue (Aims and Scope) (Klaus Brunnstein)
Issue 78 (11 Jun 89)-
- NY Telephone Freebies (PGN)
- Nielsen Raidings -- A risk? (John Rushby)
- C-17 Overrun (Gary Chapman)
- COMPASS '89 reminder (Al Friend)
- Re: Big Brother is watching your posting in RISKS (Amos Shapir)
- How Rumors Mutate, Lesson 2 (Rich Fritzson)
- The computer didn't commit the crime (Michael Doob)
- An ATM gets it right (Steve Anthony)
- Justice Department wary in Computer Case (Dave Bozak)
Issue 79 (14 Jun 89)-
- Single point of failure -- Tokyo Stock Exchange (Jerry Carlin)
- Costly Horse Race (Rick Zaccone)
- Commercial Loans in California at a Standstill (PGN)
- Phone Hacking (Brinton Cooper)
- Microcomputers in the operating theatre (Martyn Thomas)
- Inspiration from the past -- Machines Will Take Over (Curtis Galloway)
- "Illuminatus!" (Pete)
- Praise and Blame -- Computers and People (Hugh Miller)
- NORAD Computers: Years Late, Unusably Slow, $207 Million Over Budget (Karl Lehenbauer)
Issue 80 (16 Jun 89)-
- Disarmament by defect (Gerard Stafleu)
- Even human-in-the-loop isn't foolproof. A test case. (Pete Holzmann)
- Single point of failure? probably not. (Ephraim Vishniac)
- Re: single point of failure -- Tokyo Stock Exchange (Patrick Wolfe)
- Qantas Airliner Mishap (John Murray)
- Theorem Proving by Computers (Tom Thomson)
- Re: Computer electrocutes chess player ... (Dave Horsfall, Joel Kirsh)
- Clerical error spares famed sex-fiend (Mike Albaugh)
- Sabre computer problems revisited (Emily H. Lonsford)
- Protection from Misdirected Radio Control Commands (Robert Horvitz)
Issue 81 (17 Jun 89)-
- Re: Disarmament by defect (Gary Chapman)
- Medical history-on-a-card? (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- No backups -- TOWER of Babel (Sam Cramer)
- 'Blip' Blows Computers Back to Paper Age (Mark Osbourne)
- Re: Computer electrocutes chess player who beat it! (O. Crepin-Leblond)
- Re: Hartford Coliseum (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
Issue 82 (19 Jun 89)-
- Re: Microcomputers in the operating theatre (Ken Howard)
- Risks of missiles (Steve Den Beste)
- Trojan Horse in Comp.Risks? (John C Williams)
- Power glitches scrambling computers --- can it be avoided? (Will Dickson)
- Re: 'Blip' Blows Computers Back to Paper Age (William M. Bumgarner)
- No back-ups: Ninth Circuit's "computer error" (Clifford Johnson)
- Hillsborough Football -- Another Computer Connection (Charles Lindsey)
- Radio Control Interference (Marco C. Barbarisi)
- New Yorker Article (book serialization?) on radiation risks (Martin Minow)
Issue 83 (20 Jun 89 PDT)-
- Pacemakers, radios (Walter Roberson)
- 'Traffic monitoring system used for spying' (Walter Roberson)
- I am not a number... (unique postal codes) (Walter Roberson)
- Medical history-on-a-card? ; Another ATM Risks (Edward A. Ranzenbach)
- Re: Microcomputers in the operating theatre (Donald Lindsay, Keith Emanuel)
- Hartford Civic Center roof crash (Peter Desnoyers)
- Re: Risks of missiles (Jan Wolitzky, Gary Chapman, Bob Ayers)
Issue 84 (21 Jun 89)-
- The risks of global editing (Martyn Thomas / Richard Tobin / Nick Radcliffe)
- Re: I am not a number -- already in the US (Tom Comeau)
- Re: I am not a number -- more in Canada (Vince Manis))
- Re: Computer electrocutes chess player ... (W. Scott Meeks, Brendan McKay)
- Gigatext Translation Services Inc. scandal (Bhota San) [long]
Issue 85 (28 Jun 89)-
- Air Force satellite positioning system cracked (Dave Curry)
- Loose wire caused Clapham train crash (Jon Jacky)
- London firms reportedly offer amnesty to ``hacker thieves'' (Ken Berkun via Jon Jacky)
- Re: Microcomputers in the operating theater (Jon Jacky, Diomidis Spinellis)
- Don't celebrate big tax refund too quickly (David Sherman)
- Reading meters and gauges by robot in nuclear power plants (Robert Cooper)
Issue 86 (29 Jun 89)-
- SPADOC Modernization Effort (Chris McDonald)
- Are are nuclear weapons useable? How can one test this? (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
- NASA tests video system that may lead to windowless cockpits (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Air Force to upgrade missile launch command computers (Jon Jacky)
- Missile launch -- upgrades degrade ? (Clifford Johnson)
- Strategic weapon software development practices (Stan Shebs via Jon Jacky)
- Rotting Landsat data (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
Issue 87 (29 Jun 89)-
- ``Student plan marred by computer mistake'' (Matthew Wall)
- Immigration Chief Proposes National Computer Screen (Christopher T. Jewell)
- Big Brother is Hallucinating (Elizabeth D Zwicky)
- Study finds ``pedal misapplication'' to blame for Audi surges (Jon Jacky)
- Computer Crime and Social Risks (Pete McVay)
- Reducing risks of cost overruns/project failures (Pete Lucas)
- Re: New Yorker Article on radiation risks (David Chase)
- Computerized Translations (Will Martin)

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