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 9
Wednesday 30 May 1990
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
Volume 9 Issue 1 (6 Jul 89)- Elevator inquest update (Walter Roberson)
- UK Defense software standard (Sean Matthews)
- Exxon loses Valdez data (Steve Smaha -- and Hugh Miller)
- "Managing risk in large complex systems" (Bob Allison)
- A "model" software engineering methodology? (Rich D'Ippolito)
- CERT Offline (Edward DeHart)
- Re: Audi 5000 acceleration (Dave Platt, Mark Seecof, Michael McClary)
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Volume 9 Issue 2 (10 Jul 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 3 (11 Jul 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 4 (13 Jul 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 5 (15 Jul 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 6 (18 Jul 89)
- Mitnick sentenced as an addict (Rodney Hoffman)
- Long addresses confuse bank's computer (Paul Leyland)
- Town Hall's computer snags trouble old age pensioners (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Re: Automobile Electronic Performance Management (Charles Rader)
- Re: UK Defence Software Standard, non-determinism, recursion and armageddon (Victor Yodaiken, anonymous via Tim Shimeall, Bob Estell, Martin Minow)
- Telephone technicians tapping into other phone lines (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Re: New Yorker Article on "radiation" risks (Gordon Hester)
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Volume 9 Issue 7 (19 Jul 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 8 (28 Jul 89)
- Returning before departing on airline reservation systems (Gary McClelland)
- Sun security problem: restore (J. Paul Holbrook)
- Computer condom? (Jeff Stout)
- Robert Tappan Morris indicted (Steve Den Beste)
- Re: UK Defence Software Standard (Mark Moraes, Douglas W. Jones)
- Polling vs. interrupts (Douglas W. Jones)
- Software Engineering Models (John (J.G.) Mainwaring)
- Single Point of Failure for Internet Management (Kee Hinckley)
- DARPA contract & AI for moving targets (Bob Estell)
- Two-Word Last Names and Other Amusing Database Stories (Gary McClelland)
- Credit card issuers invade cardholders' privacy (Andrew Klossner)
- Re: windowless cockpits (Andrew Klossner)
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Volume 9 Issue 9 (14 Aug 89)
- California to escrow electronic vote counting software (Rodney Hoffman)
- Voters Left off Electoral Roll (Rohan Allan Baxter)
- Beeperless remote answering machine risks (Peter Scott)
- Computerized Houses (Jake Livni)
- Automated Driving (Ian Gent)
- Marijuana Virus wreaks havoc in Australian Defence Department (J. Holley)
- Universal Trapdoors (Vin McLellan)
- Computer Problems at Saratoga Racetrack (Rodney Hoffman, Dave Fiske)
- RISKS summer reruns? (Daniel F. Fisher, Jim Horning)
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Volume 9 Issue 10 (14 Aug 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 11 (15 Aug 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 12 (17 Aug 89)
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Volume 9 Issue 13 (18 Aug 89)
- Phony IRS refunds by computer (Rob Gross)
- Cellular phones in stings (David Wittenberg)
- Aircrew acceptance of flight automation (Robert Dorsett)
- Unauthorized Internet activity (CERT Internet Advisory -- Kenneth R. van Wyk)
- Re: Marijuana virus wreaks havoc in Australian Defence Department (Anthony John Apted)
- More on the Wily Hackers (Rob Gross)
- Training and Software Engineers (Tim Shimeall)
- Computer-based airline ticket scam (Jordan Brown)
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Volume 9 Issue 14 (21 Aug 1989)
- The Check's in the Mail (but the water got shut off anyway) (Dave Clayton)
- Australian Commonwealth Bank -- doubled deposits (Martyn Thomas)
- Automatic vehicle navigation systems (Pete Lucas)
- Tired of computers being trusted? (a balancing act for wheel watchers) (PGN)
- Re: Computer-based airline ticket scam (Jules d'Entremont)
- Human failures in emergencies (Henry Spencer)
- Hazards of Airliner Computerization (Mike Trout)
- Re: California studies "drive-by-wire" (John Chew)
- First test for electronic tagging starts in jail! (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Re: unauthorized Internet activity (anonymous)
- DEMO Software Disk Infected (Jerusalem Version B) (J. Vavrina)
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Volume 9 Issue 15 (22 Aug 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 16 (23 Aug 1989)
- Autopilots (Marc Rotenberg)
- Hazards of Airliner Computerization (Brinton Cooper)
- Risks, and an assumed definition of "reliability" (Bob Estell)
- Computers in Medicine (Brinton Cooper)
- Constructive criticism? Technology doesn't have to be bad (Donald A Norman)
- Tandem computers and stock exchange failure (Ernest H. Robl)
- TSE shutdown -- a success story (Rich D'Ippolito)
- Incompatible IR controllers damage circuits? (David A Willcox)
- Re: a balancing act for wheel watchers (J. Eric Townsend, Keith D Gregory)
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Volume 9 Issue 17 (23 Aug 1989)
- Hazards in Airliners and Medicine (Nancy Leveson)
- Re: Technology Doesn't Have to Be Bad (Mike Trout, Robert Dorsett)
- "Drive-by-wire": What about bicycles? (Anne Paulson, Donald A Norman)
- Re: Autopilots (Brinton Cooper)
- Re: Automated Highways (George H. Feil)
- Roads made safer or not? (Pete Lucas)
- Training & Software Engineering, a reply... (Edward A. Ranzenbach)
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Volume 9 Issue 18 (28 Aug 1989)
- Proposal for SDI software center (Gary Chapman)
- Computerworld article on high-tech weapons (George Entenman)
- CHAOSNet used in `SNUFF' snuff (PGN)
- DMV records, and individual privacy and safety (PGN)
- Another vehicle guidance system (Pete Lucas)
- Medics touch computers?!? (Sam Bassett)
- Unfounded fault-probability claims (Dieter Muller)
- Lowest-bidder or weak specs? (David A Honig)
- Automated roads, drive-by-wire, bicycles, and the elderly (PGN)
- The Guardian vs computer passwords (Brian Foster)
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Volume 9 Issue 19 (30 Aug 1989)
- NEW INSTRUCTIONS TO FTP VOL i ISSUE j, effective immediately (PGN)
- Reg. of Motor Vehicles computer slows down (Adam Gaffin)
- British nuclear reactor software safety disputed (Jon Jacky)
- South German hackers hack TV German Post (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Ethics (Donald J. Weinshank via Tom Thomson)
- sci.aeronautics, a new newsgroup (Robert Dorsett)
- What's a stamp? (postal service problems) (David Elliott)
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Volume 9 Issue 20 (1 Sep 1989)
- Last Night's "Tonight" was Unknighted; Cars on Carson Top Hat Trick (PGN)
- More on the Therac 25 -- by Jon Jacky (PGN)
- Witness questions attack on Iranian jet (Robert Dorsett)
- Risks of on-line course registration (Deborah M. Clawson)
- Specifications (Martyn Thomas)
- Re: Lowest-bidder or weak specs? (Scott, Robert Hirsch, Bill Cattey)
- Pilot simulator training and boredom (Dan Franklin)
- More on automation (Robert Dorsett)
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Volume 9 Issue 21 (5 Sep 1989)
- Re: Technology doesn't have to be bad (Brian Randell)
- Medical systems and RF interference (Edward A. Ranzenbach)
- `Business Week' on computers and privacy (Rodney Hoffman)
- Law == Ethical Consensus (Scott Guthery)
- US occupational hazards much worse than in Europe, report claims (Jon Jacky)
- Are on-line pictures RISKy? (Russ Nelson)
- Non-U.S. Postal Codes -or- Cheap Mail to Europe (Michael Franz)
- Tired of computers being trusted? (Hugh Davies)
- Re: lowest-bidder (Donald Lindsay, Bill Anderson)
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Volume 9 Issue 22 (6 Sep 1989)
- Paris computer takes law into its own hands (ST4012704 and Sally Jubb)
- Brian Randell's comment on fault/failure analysis (Ted Lee)
- Re: US occupational hazards much worse than in Europe (Mats Ohrman)
- Re: medical systems and RF interference (Brian Kantor)
- Re: mis-tagging (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Electronic House Arrest Failure (Martyn Thomas)
- Re: Lowest-bidder or weak specs? (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Law == Ethical Consensus (Douglas W. Jones, Victor Yodaiken, Gilbert Harman, Eric Hughes, Bill Murray, Joel M. Halpern)
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Volume 9 Issue 23 (12 Sep 1989)
- Risks of RISKS: A bug in sendmail and multiple copies of RISKS-9.22 (PGN, with help from Bill Sommerfeld and Jeff Schiller)
- RF susceptibility of electronics (Pete Lucas)
- Some background on the French Farce (Dave Horsfall)
- Organizational Accreditation for Computer Assurance: Some Ideas (Frank Houston)
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Volume 9 Issue 24 (14 Sep 1989)
- RISKS-9.22 and RISKS-9.23 problems had different causes! (PGN)
- Risks of RISKS: A bug in sendmail and RISKS-9.22 (Scott Mueller)
- Phobos 1 & 2 computer failures (Ralph Hartley)
- Aircraft simulators (Rob Boudrie)
- Speeders' Delight? (Anthony Stone)
- Medical accreditation: based on "customer" clout? (Bob Ayers)
- RISKS in mainstream entertainment (Mission Impossible) (Benjamin Ellsworth)
- Software Safety Standards (Anthony J Zawilski)
- 12th National Computer Security Conference (Jack Holleran)
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Volume 9 Issue 25 (15 Sep 1989)
- Risks of distributed systems (Eugene Miya)
- Medical accreditation: good for big shops only? (Douglas W. Jones)
- The role of government regulation (Douglas W. Jones)
- Is modern software design contributing to societal stupidity? (Tom Comeau)
- Re: Aircraft simulators (Alan J Rosenthal, Robert Dorsett)
- Mission: Impossible (Robert Dorsett)
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Volume 9 Issue 26 (20 Sep 1989)
- Hospital problems due to software bug (Joe Morris)
- Man-Machine Failure at 1989 World Rowing Championships (Geoffrey Knauth)
- Responsibility, Doctors, Military vs Software Developers (Leslie DeGroff)
- Organizational Accreditation: More Thoughts (Frank Houston, Jon Jacky)
- An interesting answer to the distributed time problem (Roy Smith)
- Re: Risks of distributed systems (D. Pardo)
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Volume 9 Issue 27 (21 Sep 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 28 (24 Sep 1989)
- USAir 737-400 crash at LaGuardia (PGN)
- Re: Hospital problems due to software bug (Steve VanDevender + Amos Shapir)
- Computers, Planning, and Common Sense (John (J.G.) Mainwaring)
- Synchronizing Clocks (Earl Boebert)
- Re: Risks of Distributed Systems (Sung Kwon Chung)
- Master clocks, etc. (Eddie Caplan)
- ISO 9001 accreditation (Martyn Thomas)
- Toxic Spill at the Department of Education [long] (Joe Pujals)
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Volume 9 Issue 29 (25 Sep 1989)
- Computerized fingerprint system has human failure (Dave Suess)
- Computerized translation strikes again (Joe Morris)
- Loose wires (Desmond Andigo via John Leonard)
- Software *IS* an abstraction (Bob Estell)
- Yes, the power grid IS getting less reliable (Bruce Hamilton)
- Computers, Planning, and Common Sense (Richard O'Keefe)
- Simulated aircraft emergencies (John Mackin)
- Re: Software Accreditation (Richard Threadgill)
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Volume 9 Issue 30 (2 Oct 1989)
- The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)
- Internet cracker on the loose (Barry Lustig)
- Late night system administration == trouble on SunOS 4.x (Angela Marie Thomas)
- Date manipulation and end of millennia (Pete Lucas)
- Re: An interesting answer to the distributed time problem (Randall Davis)
- Re: Man-Machine Failure at 1989 World Rowing Championships (Randall Davis)
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Volume 9 Issue 31 (4 Oct 1989)
- Computer multiplies taxable earnings by 100 (Rodney Hoffman)
- Hackwatch spokesman charged (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: Internet cracker on the loose (Randy Buckland)
- Re: Hospital problems due to software bug (Mike Kimura)
- Re: Date manipulation and end of millennia (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Clock-watching (George L Sicherman)
- 9-digit precision (Gideon Yuvall)
- The Risks of Crossing the Tracks (Railroad Crossing Gate Technology) (Jean- David Beyer, Laurence Larry Sheldon, Richard L. Piazza via Chuck Weinstock)
- Fifth Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (Marshall D. Abrams)
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Volume 9 Issue 32 (16 Oct 1989)
- Missed zero blamed for aircrash (Dave Horsfall)
- Software reliance/software problems and the Stealth (Marc Rotenberg)
- Coping with the unexpected - Friday's stock plunge (Steve Bellovin)
- Re: latest stock market crash (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Atlantis launch delay (PGN)
- Keeping up with the [Indian(a)] Joneses in elections (PGN)
- Friendly advice... [Datacrime] (David Gursky)
- Re: Synchronizing Clocks (Brian Randell)
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Volume 9 Issue 33 (22 Oct 1989)
- Earthquake preparedness in computing (PGN)
- Air-Traffic Disruptions (PGN and Robert Dorsett)
- Railroad Level-Crossing Monitoring (Brian Randell)
- Sometimes touch-screens aren't user-friendly (Jeffrey Mogul)
- UK Banking Error (Brian Randell)
- Quotron gores the bears and bares the bulls (PGN)
- Quotron software timing error (David B. Benson)
- Re: latest stock market crash (David Gursky)
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Volume 9 Issue 34 (24 Oct 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 35 (25 Oct 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 36 (27 Oct 1989)
- Bug in Intel 486 chip (PGN)
- UK Banking Error (Brian Randell)
- The Presentation of Risky Information (Joshua Levy)
- Hardware failure mimics hackers (Pat White, Andy Goldstein)
- Worms in a data stream (Rick Simkin)
- CERT Advisory on Sun RCP (J. Paul Holbrook)
- Warning About CERT Warnings (anonymous)
- Licensed users exceeded (Tim Steele)
- A lesson involving 'CRACKERS' (APPLE II) (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
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Volume 9 Issue 37 (29 Oct 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 38 (31 Oct 1989)
- Passwords in the Electronic Home (Gary McClelland)
- A new excuse (Ernest H. Robl)
- Hot computers and temperature-sensitive programs (Donald Arseneau)
- Re: Hi-tech loses in cars (Paul Fuqua)
- Article on computer crime laws (Peter Ladkin)
- Work processes which are done faster by hand than by machine (Alexis Rosen)
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Volume 9 Issue 39 (7 Nov 1989)
- Computer used to find scoflaws in Boston (Barry C. Nelson)
- Air Traffic in Leesburg VA (PGN)
- Equinox TV Documentary on "Fly By Wire" (Brian Randell)
- Lifethreatening risk! (related to Soviet PCs) (Julian Thomas)
- New computer risk: child abuse data base proposed (W. K. (Bill) Gorman)
- Dangers of mail aliases (Jonathan Leech)
- Committee report on Bugs (Bob Morris)
- Computer Viruses Attack China (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- First Virus Attack on Macs in Japan (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- NTT Challenges Hackers (Mark H. W.)
- Even COBOL programmers need to know about range checking. (Bryce Nesbitt)
- Unix Expo Power Failure (Jan I Wolitzky)
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Volume 9 Issue 40 (10 Nov 1989)
- "Computer Error" in Durham N.C. election results (J. Dean Brock, Ronnie W. Smith, John A. Board)
- Glitch in Virginia election totals (Paul Ammann)
- Rome: Operator error causes publication of wrong election results (Lorenzo Strigini)
- Delayed Stock Exchange Opening (Brian M. Clapper)
- Electronic Warfare Systems not working--Congress ()
- Computer used to find scoflaws in Boston (Peter Jones)
- Computer errors and computer risks (Randall Davis)
- Equinox program on Airbus (Lindsay F. Marshall)
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Volume 9 Issue 41 (11 Nov 1989)
- Stuffing the electronic ballot box (again) (PGN)
- BART and the Bartered-Computer Commuters
- Coral reef ruined by poor user interface design? (Jim Helman)
- Re: Computer errors and computer risks (Jerome H Saltzer)
- Computer used to find scoflaws in Boston (David desJardins)
- Reference on the early history of Ada -- killing reliably (Eugene Miya)
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Volume 9 Issue 42 (13 Nov 1989)
- Equinox TV programme on A320 (Bev Littlewood, Chris Dalton)
- European Safety is not always BETTER (Bruce C. Brown)
- Artificial lightning (PGN)
- Another intrusive database with associated privacy problems (Bill Gorman)
- Re: "Computer Error" in Durham N.C. election results (Gregory G. Woodbury)
- Re: Computer errors and computer risks (Willis H. Ware, D. King)
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Volume 9 Issue 43 (15 Nov 1989)
- L.A. Times Computer Foulup (Jerry Hollombe)
- Altered bits in Risks 9.39 (John M. Sullivan and Henk Langeveld)
- Re: Apollo 12 (Artificial lightning) (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Equinox TV programme on A320 (Alan Marcum)
- Failure of Systems After Earthquake (Jon von Zelowitz)
- Article about "Paperless Office" (Alan Marcum)
- Are you sure you declared ALL your dividends? (Peter Jones)
- Re: Another intrusive database ... (Jim Horning)
- Re: Computer errors and computer risks (David Smith, John Locke)
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Volume 9 Issue 44 (17 Nov 1989)
- More on BART's new computer system (PGN)
- Computer misdirects phone calls for TV programme (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Murphy's Law Meets the Navy (PGN)
- Unwanted Credit (Stuart Bell)
- Saskatchewan shuts down translation project (Peter Jones)
- Re: Another intrusive database with associated privacy problems (Brinton Cooper)
- Re: Are you sure you declared ALL your dividends? (Jim Frost)
- Re: L.A. Times "computer" problems [anonymous]
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Volume 9 Issue 45 (20 Nov 1989)
- Another foretaste of the Millenium (Brian Randell)
- UNIX EXPO Blackout (Brian Randell)
- Autodialing horror stories (John )
- Self-trust and computer professionals (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Bit problem with RISKS-9.39 was more global (Dan Johnson)
- Gauge Proposed on Filing of Wage Data by Computer (David B. Benson)
- Congress Finds Bugs in the Software (David B. Benson)
- "Computer risks" (Randall Davis)
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Volume 9 Issue 46 (22 Nov 1989)
- ``Play it Again, Yonkers'' -- more election funnies (Steve Bellovin)
- Army shuts down computers and goes home due to rain (Rodney Hoffman)
- More good news -- Privacy and risks in credit information (Bill Gorman)
- Automated Bank RISKS (John Howard Osborn)
- Another Foretaste of the Millenium? (corrigenda) (Brian Randell)
- Re: Self-trust and computer professionals (Jerry Hollombe)
- Re: Congress Finds Bugs in the Software (Franklin Davis, Bob, David Gursky)
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Volume 9 Issue 47 (24 Nov 1989)
- Air Force Radar Risk (update) (Henry Cox)
- Congressional report: "Bugs in the Program" (Gary Chapman, Dave Davis)
- Re: Specifying vs. defining (Dave Platt)
- Training programmers (Lee S. Ridgway)
- Re: Privacy and risks in credit information (John DeBert)
- Re: Automated Bank RISKS (Marc Shannon, Jon Mauney)
- Re: Autodialing horror stories (Robert Sansom)
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Volume 9 Issue 48 (25 Nov 1989)
- Check inquiry / binary search (anonymous)
- Re: Training programmers (Paul J. Mech)
- Telephone Overload (Jon von Zelowitz)
- Write protect tabs (via Peter Jones from Craig Finseth in VIRUS-L)
- High error rates (P.E.Smee)
- Policy vs. the Enabling Technology (Bill Murray)
- Computer Virus Catalog Index: November' 89 (Klaus Brunnstein)
- CERT_Tools_Announcement (Edward DeHart)
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Volume 9 Issue 49 (27 Nov 1989)
- Davis on arguing about technology vs policy (Phil Agre)
- Re: Check inquiry / binary search: Gardner (Jim Griffith)
- Re: Check inquiry / binary search: Theroux (Roy Smith)
- Re: Privacy and risks in credit information (Brinton Cooper)
- Re: UNIX EXPO Blackout" (Glenn Story)
- How to improve your financial standing (Glenn Story)
- Re: Self-trust and computer professionals (Mike McNally)
- Re: problems with government project specifications (Bob Estell)
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Volume 9 Issue 50 (3 Dec 1989)
- Vote counting problems - experience in Michigan (Lawrence Kestenbaum, PGN)
- Specs and custom software (Curtis Jackson)
- Pentagon Computer Costs (Gary Chapman)
- Software tool munges code (Nick Lai)
- Marshall Williams convicted of destroying data (PGN)
- Mitnick's accomplice sentenced (Rodney Hoffman)
- Desktop forgery (Rodney Hoffman)
- Paul Brodeur's "Currents of Death" (Werner Uhrig)
- McRisks - Electronic Interference in Fast Food Automation (Robert Horvitz)
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Volume 9 Issue 51 (5 Dec 1989)
- Computer bungling of auto insurance premiums (Barry Kolb)
- Computerized voting machine misbehaves (Rodney Hoffman)
- Re: Vote counting problems - experience in Michigan (Jeffrey R Kell)
- Privacy issues raised about automating toll collection (Stephen W Thompson)
- Re: Electronic Interference in Fast Food Automation (David Chase)
- Digital Cellular and the government (Tim Russell)
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Volume 9 Issue 52 (8 Dec 1989)
- Unsafe French software? (A. N. Walker)
- Congress repeals catastrophic insurance, SSA still collects premiums (Rich Rosenbaum)
- Another runaway military computing project: WWMCCS (Jon Jacky)
- Courts say violation of professional code is malpractice (Jon Jacky)
- Risks of computerized typesetting (Chuq Von Rospach from SF-LOVERS, via Alayne McGregor)
- 486 chip faults: PC shipments halted, customers warned (Jon Jacky)
- Selling Government-Held Information (Peter Jones)
- Cellular phone service in Hungary (Adam J. Kucznetsov)
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Volume 9 Issue 53 (11 Dec 1989)
- Computerized public records boon to private eyes probing suitors (Jay Elinsky, Jon von Zelowitz)
- Should computers be legally responsible? (A. Lester Buck)
- Automatic toll systems (Jerry Harper)
- Software Development (Bill Murray)
- Newsgroup posting rejected, rejected, rejected, ... (Earle Ake)
- Comments on Unix INDENT program (Simson L. Garfinkel, Nick Lai, David McAllister))
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Volume 9 Issue 54 (12 Dec 1989)
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Volume 9 Issue 55 (18 Dec 1989)
- Risks of Mail (the "yellow peril"?) (Joe Dellinger)
- PR RISKs of computer communications -- Prodigy (Mark Jackson)
- Re: private eyes probing suitors -- Amazon Women on the Moon (Dwight McKay)
- Faults in 29000 RISC chip (Jon Jacky)
- The Trojan horse named "AIDS" (contributed by many who are not neigh-sayers)
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Volume 9 Issue 56 (21 Dec 1989)
- GAO Says IS technology is transforming the Government (Dave Davis)
- California Supreme Court endorses computerized horoscopes (Clifford Johnson)
- Software malpractice (Steve Philipson)
- Computerized card catalog (Roy Smith)
- Frustrated with phones (Shamus McBride)
- 23 years MTBF ??? (David A. Honig)
- Re: Another runaway military computing project: WWMCCS (Tom Reid)
- Virus Hearing on TV (Marc Rotenberg)
- Risks of posting to risks! (Joe Dellinger)
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Volume 9 Issue 57 (4 Jan 1990)
- Self-Service ordering in retail establishments (Russell McFatter)
- Programming Languages and Romanian Dictators (Eric Haines)
- `Credit Card' found from 13th Century (Steve Crocker)
- Risks of computerfax (Steve Elias)
- Password Security: A Case History, by Bob Morris and Ken Thompson (PGN)
- "What Really Happened Oct. 13" (Joe Morris)
- The risks of not learning? (Al Arsenault)
- RAND has not received "AIDS Information Disk" (Correction from Jim Gillogly)
- Call for Papers -- 13th National Computer Security Conference (Jack Holleran)
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Volume 9 Issue 58 (9 Jan 1990)
- New-Years' Lotto goes Blotto (Jim Anderson)
- Railroad interlocking systems (Douglas W. Jones)
- Sorry, the bank's already debited your mortgage (Dave Horsfall)
- Positive fingerprint identification? (Dave Horsfall)
- Re: Password Security: A Case History (Fernando J. Corbato)
- The risks of not learning - and of ignoring realities (Jerry Leichter)
- 6th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg 27-29 Dec 1989 (Klaus Brunnstein)
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Volume 9 Issue 59 (10 January 1990)
- Drawbridge opens without warning in rush-hour traffic (Jon Jacky)
- Massive Electrical Failure in a Bus (Peter Jones)
- What hung the computer? (Julian)
- Passwords and security (Phil Ritzenthaler, Henry Spencer, Jerry Leichter, ark, Peter da Silva)
- IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, Oakland 1990 ()
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Volume 9 Issue 60 (15 Jan 1990)
- The C3 legacy: top-down goes belly-up recursively (Les Earnest)
- Dispatchinate Computerized Cab Service (PGN)
- Risks of manual page formatters and inserted text (J. Eric Townsend)
- Re: What hung the computer? (Dave Platt)
- Perils of not planning for errors (Ted Shapin)
- Wrong 800 numbers (Steven W. Grabhorn)
- Password Sharing (Dave Bafumo)
- Call for papers for computer security foundations workshop (John McLean)
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Volume 9 Issue 61 (20 Jan 1990)
- Shortage of RISKS but no shortage of risks -- the week in review (PGN)
- AT&T Failure (Bill Murray, Jim Horning)
- Risks of Voicemail systems that expect a human at the other end (R. Aminzade)
- Risks of vote counting (Alayne McGregor)
- Risks of supermarket checkout scanners (David Marks)
- European R&D in Road Transportation (Brian Randell)
- Old habits die hard (Dave Horsfall)
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Volume 9 Issue 62 (26 Jan 1990)
- Australian medical database linkages (Michael Bednarek)
- Cause of AT&T network failure ("Telephony", Jim Harkins)
- London Stock Market Disruption (courtesy of Steve Milunovic)
- Railway interlocking (Clive Feather)
- More risks to computers (Richard Thomsen)
- Re: Risks of supermarket checkout scanners (Marvin Moskowitz, Doug Renner, Don Craig)
- Robert T. Morris Convicted (Michael J. Chinni)
- Advance Program for Oakland Symposium (REVISED) (Debbie Cooper)
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Volume 9 Issue 63 (31 Jan 1990)
- Vive la difference? (Peter G. Neumann)
- Airbus crash of June 88 (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- AT&T Crash Statement: The Official Report (Don H Kemp via Geoff Goodfellow)
- Important Lesson from AT&T Tragedy (Bill Murray)
- Potential Lesson From AT&T (Bill Murray)
- Sun Sendmail Vulnerability (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
- GPO Library disk infection (PC) (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
- Re: Password Sharing (Al Arsenault)
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (Marshall D. Abrams)
- Virology (Gene Spafford)
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Volume 9 Issue 64 (1 Feb 1990)
- SENDMAIL horrors (PGN)
- Software error at Bruce nuclear station (Mark Bartelt)
- New South Wales Police deregisters police cars (Diomidis Spinellis)
- Fire and 753 controllers (need a light?) (Neal Immega via Mark Seiden)
- The substantiative error made by AT&T (Robert Ullmann)
- Re: AT&T Crash Statement: The Official Report (Bob Munck)
- Re: Airbus crash of June 88 (Robert Dorsett)
- Re: Virology and an infectious date syndrome (Gene Spafford)
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Volume 9 Issue 65 (2 Feb 1990)
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Volume 9 Issue 66 (5 Feb 1990)
- Another SAGE memoir (Jon Jacky)
- DoD plans another attack on the "software crisis" (Jon Jacky)
- The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing (Phil Agre)
- Vincennes' Aegis System: Why did RISKS ignore specifications? (R. Horn)
- Computer Virus Book of Records (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Re: AT&T (Gene Spafford, David Keppel, Stanley Chow)
- Sendmail (Brian Kantor, Rayan Zachariassen, Geoffrey H. Cooper, Kyle Jones, Craig Everhart)
- Re: Risks of Voicemail systems (Randall Davis)
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Volume 9 Issue 67 (8 Feb 1990)
- Shoplifting and Computers (Curtis P. Yeske)
- New movie Script writer (Olivier Crepin-Leblond)
- Re: Computers, good and evil (George L Sicherman)
- The C3 legacy, Part 3: Command-control catches on (Les Earnest)
- Vincennes' ROEs revisited (Clifford Johnson)
- SOGS - Hubble Space Telescope software now ready (Rodney Hoffman)
- AT&T and reentrant code (John A. Pershing Jr)
- AT&T and error recovery (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Dillard's Dept Stores Use SSN as Sales ID - Printed on Receipts (Allen Gwinn)
- AutoAlarms (Robert J Woodhead)
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Volume 9 Issue 68 (14 Feb 1990)
- Re: Caller ID (NYTimes editorial) (John M. Sullivan)
- How to make answering machines deliver ransom messages (Denis Coskun)
- More on the Hubble Space Telescope (Hank Strub)
- Human blamed, not the computer! -- jury duty (Lee S. Ridgway)
- Accents are more than just decorations (Kai-Mikael J{{-Aro)
- [Parse-ly, Rosemary, Time, Light, Control & Other SAGE Remarks] (Martin Minow)
- Blazers (Jeff Berkowitz)
- Re: Computers, good and evil (Gregg TeHennepe)
- Telephone Switch Security (Roland Ouellette)
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Volume 9 Issue 69 (20 Feb 1990)
- A320 accident (Nancy Leveson, George Michaelson)
- Ferry line replaces "sail-by-wire" with pneumatic controls (Jon Jacky)
- Now Prodigy Can Read You (Donald B Wechsler)
- 3 KGB Wily Hackers convicted, mild sentences (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested. [Item Includes AT&T "do...while"..."switch"..."if"..."break" tale] (Gerald Baumgartner)
- AT&T Says New Goof Wiped Out Many Toll-Free Calls (David B. Benson)
- Re: Computerized Collect Calls (Adam Gaffin via Mark Brader)
- RISKS of ANI blocking (James C Blasius)
- "Brilliant Pebbles" (Gary Chapman)
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Volume 9 Issue 70 (23 Feb 1990)
- Neutron reactor lands in hot water (Steve Strassmann)
- Yet another laserwriter health risk? (Roy Smith via Mark Seiden)
- Computer security at stock exchanges vulnerable (Rodney Hoffman)
- A320 accident (Udo Voges)
- Problems/risks due to programming language (AT&T Bug) (Jonathan I. Kamens, Steve Nuchia, David L. Golber, Robert L. Smith)
- Re: "Provably insecure programming language" (Mark McWiggins)
- Re: Computerized Collect Calls (Joseph Beckman)
- What makes a hacker hack? (Nigel Voss-Roberts)
- The "Twelve Tricks" Trojan horse (Christoph Fischer via John Rushby)
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Volume 9 Issue 71 (26 Feb 1990)
- Journalists and computers: `Z' (R. Clayton)
- Space Shuttle (Steve Bellovin)
- Magellan spacecraft will need frequent guidance from Earth (David B. Benson)
- More on Air India Airbus A320 (Steve Milunovic)
- AT&T (Clifford Johnson, Rob Warnock, Steve Bellovin, David Paul Hoyt)
- Re: Computerized Collect Calls (John (J.G.) Mainwaring)
- A different multiple-copy problem (SEN) (Dan Craigen)
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Volume 9 Issue 72 (28 Feb 1990)
- Clients cross about crossed wires (David Sherman)
- 100-year-old can drive four years without test (David Sherman)
- Some comments on the Airbus (Robert Dorsett, Martyn Thomas)
- Re: Problems/risks due to programming language (Bruce Hamilton)
- Comments on programmer error (Geoffrey Welsh)
- "Goto considered harmful" considered harmful (Brad Templeton)
- lockd (Caveh Jalali)
- Re: Railroad interlocking systems (J.A.Hunter via Brian Randell)
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Volume 9 Issue 73 (6 Mar 1990)
- Another 100-year computer saga (David B. Benson)
- Traffic System Failure (Rich Neitzel)
- Railway interlocking systems (Clive Feather)
- Avionics in the media (John M. Sullivan)
- Re: A320 (Steven Philipson, Subhasish Mazumdar, Pete Mellor)
- Mileage Plus wants me to move (Tim Kay)
- Credit-card fraud (Douglas Mason)
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Volume 9 Issue 74 (12 Mar 1990)
- Airbus Crash: Reports from the Indian Press (N. Balaji)
- Indian Airlines A320 in the German press (Udo Voges)
- The C3 legacy, Part 4: A gaggle of L-systems (Les Earnest)
- The risks of keeping old versions -- Daigle book (Graeme Hirst/David Sherman)
- PSU Hackers thwarted (Angela Marie Thomas)
- Anonymous Word Processing: `Z' (Jon von Zelowitz)
- Re: Now Prodigy Can Read You (Eric Roskos)
- Re: Traffic System Failure (Peter Ahrens)
- Tracking criminals and the DRUG police-action (J. Eric Townsend)
- Human-Centered Automation (Robert Dorsett)
- Drive-by-wire cars (Craig Leres)
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Volume 9 Issue 75 (15 Mar 1990)
- PRODIGY updating programs (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Who shall guard the guards? (Robert A. Levene)
- Journalistic hacking (Rodney Hoffman)
- Caller-id by name (Gary T. Marx)
- Re: PSU Hackers thwarted (David C Lawrence)
- Re: Tracking criminals and the DRUG police-action (Brinton Cooper)
- RISKS of "Evolutionary Software" (Rajnish and Gene Spafford via Will Martin)
- Human-centered automation (Donald A Norman)
- Re: Airbus Crash: Reports from the Indian Press (Henry Spencer)
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Volume 9 Issue 76 (19 Mar 1990)
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Volume 9 Issue 77 (21 Mar 1990)
- Stranded Satellite (Steve Bellovin)
- Re: London Underground wrong-way train in rush-hour (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Internet Intruder (John Markoff via PGN (excerpted))
- Internet Intruder Warning (J. Paul Holbrook)
- Risks of reporting breakins (Randal Schwartz)
- Re: Privacy in Printout (Tim Wood, Henry Spencer)
- Computer-based phones threaten privacy (again!) ("34AEJ7D")
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Volume 9 Issue 78 (5 Apr 1990)
- RAF Tornado collision (Dorothy R. Graham via PGN)
- New Georgia Automobile Tags (Warren Tucker)
- British tax tales (Bob Gray via Mark Brader)
- Oslo Day in Norway? No way! (Paul Dorey)
- Computer backorder on cover letters (Yuri Rubinsky)
- London Underground driver's action (Martyn Ould)
- Hi-Tech Loo (Wayne W. Lui via Brian Randell)
- Proposed UK Authority for Risk Management (Brian Randell) [See Box for cases]
- More on Prodigy's Updating of a User's Disks (Eric Roskos, Paul Eggert)
- April Fools Day on the net (D. Waitzman via Martin Minow)
- Automated Fast Food (Dave Curry)
- UNIX Trix (Paul Eggert)
- Re: PSU Hackers thwarted (Pete Mellor)
- Three Australians indicted for computer tampering (PGN)
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Volume 9 Issue 79 (9 Apr 1990)
- Fixing Computer Error Cost $1,300 in Overtime (Chris McDonald)
- Computer problem delays Calif. Lotto payouts (Rodney Hoffman)
- Computer Glitch Cuts of Decco Sales (Mark Adams)
- Computer Animations in court testimony (Peter Scott)
- Re: Proposed UK Authority for Risk Management (Dan Franklin)
- Re: Intruders arrested (Mike McBain via Lee Naish)
- Re: More on Prodigy's Updating of a User's Disks (Leonard Erickson)
- Wonderfully mistaken letter generators (Frank Letts, Gary Cattarin)
- Re: Automated Fast Food (Webber)
- Re: Airbus Crash: Reports from the Indian Press (Dan Brahme)
- A320 press excerpts (Robert Dorsett)
- Indian A320 crash (Henry Spencer)
- The two A320 crashes show similarities (Martyn Thomas)
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Volume 9 Issue 80 (13 Apr 1990)
- Risks of Daylight Savings Time (Chuck Weinstock)
- Authentication via User-Defined Fields (Jim Kimble)
- Rites of consumption (Phil Agre)
- Franklin Resources Computer Glitch (John Murray)
- Risks of computerized publishing (Henry Spencer)
- Re: Computer generated letters (Benjamin Ellsworth, Nathaniel Borenstein)
- Software: A320 vs. shuttle (Michael)
- The C3 legacy, Part 5: Subsystem I (Les Earnest)
- COMPASS 90 program and registration information (John Cherniavsky)
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Volume 9 Issue 81 (18 Apr 1990)
- RISKS, SENDMAIL, and YOU! (PGN)
- London Tube train leaves ... without its driver (Stephen Page)
- Shuttle roll incident on January '90 mission (Henry Spencer)
- Software failures on Boeing 747-400? (Trevor Warwick)
- False 1099 forms (Phil R. Karn)
- Re: Risks [9.080] of Daylight Savings Time (Thomas Zmudzinski, Chuck Weinstock)
- Comment on UK Software Standards (Richard Morton) [RISKS-9.1 and 2]
- Automates Fast Food (David Bank)
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Volume 9 Issue 82 (20 Apr 1990)
- A320 news (Henry Spencer)
- The Danger of Airbags (Jeff Deifik)
- Re: Risks of computerized publishing (Paolo Mattiangeli)
- Postal Employees and cross-matching (Brinton Cooper)
- "It's a Computer Error" (Lindsay F. Marshall)
- Re: London Tube Train (Clive Feather)
- London Underground Low-Tech (anonymous)
- Virus outbreak in China! (R.Gowans via MCGDRKG in Virus-L)
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Volume 9 Issue 83 (25 Apr 1990)
- You think YOU have problems with your telephone company? (PGN)
- Traffic light outages (King Ables)
- Sabbath Goes High-Tech (David Dabney)
- Computers and Hyphenated names (Allan Meers)
- London tube train and the Boeing 747 ... (Clive Walmsley)
- Risky McDonald's comrade... (David Gursky)
- Risks of engine computers and EMP (Lynn R Grant)
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Volume 9 Issue 84 (26 Apr 1990)
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Volume 9 Issue 85 (27 Apr 1990)
- Computer error parks hundreds illegally (Dave Harding)
- Computers may be fattening? (Gary Tom)
- Unattended Plane Take-off (Andrew Duane)
- Aircraft electronics problems: A pilot's report (Peter Ilieve)
- 1099 forms, risks, and technology (Gregg TeHennepe)
- Re: "It's a Computer Error" (Pete Mellor)
- Re: Risks of engine computers and EMP (David Paul Hoyt)
- Security Breach--cc:Mail Inc. (Chris McDonald)
- Queues and Servers (Anthony E. Siegman)
- Computers and names with special characters (Lance Hoffman)
- Computer Jammming of 911 LInes (Gary McClelland)
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Volume 9 Issue 86 (30 April 1990)
- Futures market shut down (Steve Bellovin)
- Habsheim A320 crash (Clive Feather)
- Throttle Hitch Hits 747-400 (Robert Dorsett)
- Re: Unattended Plane Take-off (Jan I Wolitzky)
- Re: Computers and names with special characters (Mike Van Pelt)
- Inadequate documentation - truncated GPAs (Doug Sewell)
- "The return of the hacker" (David B. Benson)
- Indian Professors Teaching Virus Writing (Cliff Stoll)
- (Not necessarily) computer parks hundreds of cars illegally (Bill Gunshannon)
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Volume 9 Issue 87 (1 May 1990)
- Phones & techologically illiterate operators (David A. Honig)
- More telephone problems -- union pressures (Peter Jones)
- Forwarding: Weird phone bills - an unexplored possibility (Chaz Heritage via Richard Busch)
- Re: Call Forwarding (Peter Jones)
- Kissimmee Kate (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
- Re: You think YOU have problems with your telephone company? (Gary Cattarin, Jozsef A Toth, Warren Levy)
- Blaming it on the computer? (Brad Templeton)
- Re: Risky McDonald's comrade... (Charles Youman)
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Volume 9 Issue 88 (2 May 1990)
- Booby-trapped contracted software (Tom Kopp)
- Death rate inflated in St. Bruno area, health report finds (David Sherman)
- Software Bug Causes Shuttle Countdown Hold at T-31 Seconds (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Criticism of "Glass Cockpits" (1) and (2) (Martyn Thomas)
- A320 Bangalore crash (Martyn Thomas)
- A320 criticisms reported (Martyn Thomas)
- Re: computer parks hundreds of cars illegally (Andrew E. Birner)
- (Apparently) widespread problem with census 800 number (Timothy M. Wright)
- Re: You think YOU have problems with your telephone company? (Chris Lewis)
- Telephone switch problems (Webber)
- White paper available: "Improving the Security of Your UNIX System" (Davy Curry)
- Virus found in a game software on the market (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- Re: Computers and names with special characters (Bandy)
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Volume 9 Issue 89 (7 May 1990)
- A funny thing happened at the lottery office (Alan Hargreaves)
- `Boy, 12, allegedly taps credit files' (Ira Greenberg)
- Robert T. Morris' sentencing (PGN)
- Hazards Of Office Laser Printers (Keith Dancey)
- Re: Aircraft electronics problems PIREP (Steve Jay, Robert Dorsett)
- Re: A320 criticisms reported (Robert Dorsett)
- Phone system problems (Gail L Barlich, Steve Bellovin, Andras)
- Phone Switch Resets (Avi Belinsky)
- Other ways to get "Improving the Security of Your UNIX System" (Davy Curry)
- So many weapons, so little radio spectrum (Chuq Von Rospach)
- Und der Hyphisch (Andy Behrens)
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Volume 9 Issue 90 (10 May 1990)
- The Mayor and the EMail (John Markoff)
- Democratic bug in AppleLink! (Hector Rojas)
- `Hacker' alters phone services (David G. Novick)
- Re: A funny thing happened at the lottery office (Mike Beede, Emmett Hogan)
- Risk of Unauthorized Access to TRW Credit Database (Larry Lippman)
- Unusual traffic light behaviour (Andy Coombes)
- High School Boy's Story was a Fake (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- More about Sharp's Viri in Japan (Yoshio Oyanagi)
- ARMY wants computer viruses for battlefield use (Gary McClelland)
- A-320 avionics malfunctions (Vic Riley)
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Volume 9 Issue 91 (13 May 1990)
- Hubble Telescope pointing in the wrong direction (Raymond Chen)
- "Feds Pull Plug On Hackers" (James K. Huggins)
- Airline booking cancellation (Pete Mellor)
- Simple tone dialler bypasses British Telecom charging (Nigel Roberts)
- Risks of caller identification (David A. Honig)
- Avoiding ANI by Dialing 1-900 (Gary McClelland)
- Duplicate Mailings of RISKS 9.89 -- BITNET (Emmett Hogan)
- Re: Hazards of laser printers (Paul DuBois, Peter Jones)
- IFIP Conference Call for Papers (Rick Schlichting)
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Computing and Ethics (Donald Gotterbarn)
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Volume 9 Issue 92 (17 May 1990)
- Army chafes under Congress' robot weapons ban (Jon Jacky)
- Re: [London] Tube train leaves ... without its driver (Gavin Oddy)
- Re: First Hubble Images Delayed To Conduct Focusing Tests (Karl Lehenbauer)
- ANI for the criminal as well as the private citizen (Brad Templeton)
- Computer Virus Solicitation (Andy Warinner)
- Feds Pull Plug On Hackers (Bob Sutterfield, Rick Clark)
- Re: Military Viruses (Jim Vavrina via David Brierley)
- Re: Magnetic ID cards for all Israeli citizens (Amos Shapir)
- Risks of Laser Printouts (David Tarabar)
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Volume 9 Issue 93 (21 May 1990)
- Stamford CT 18-hour telephone switch outage affects 27,000 lines (PGN)
- Irrational and nonvaledictory reasoning (PGN)
- Crackdown on 1-900-STOPPER? (John M. Sulak)
- P.T.U.U.I. (Robert Hardy, PGN)
- Military Computer Virus Contract (Rory J. O'Connor)
- Risks of Laser Printouts (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, DIAC-90 (Rodney Hoffman)
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Volume 9 Issue 94 (25 May 1990)
- More on Stamford CT Telephone Switch Outage (PGN)
- Duplicate RISKS mailings...SOLVED! (Emmett Hogan)
- Cross about CRIS (Crime Report information System) (Pete Mellor)
- Disk failures after extended shutdown (David Keppel)
- The Internet is growing up! (Scott Deerwester)
- Are government secrets safer if not classified? (Mary Culnan)
- Risks of slandering ... in public forums [re: P.T.U.U.I.] (Tom Blinn)
- A320 again (Nancy Leveson)
- M1 Air Crash Inquest (Brian Randell)
- Tempus Fugit -- Claremont Clock Tower Tick Talk (Brian Randell)
- Telephone network synchronization and NavSat (John T. Mulqueen via James Price Salsman via JC%RMC)
- National Geographic also wants me to move (Tim Kay)
- Re: Irrational and nonvaledictory reasoning (John Chew)
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Volume 9 Issue 95 (26 May 1990)
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Volume 9 Issue 96 (29 May 1990)
- Roller Coaster Accident Blamed on Computer (Gary Wright)
- ATMs robbed with no signs of tampering (Stephen W Thompson)
- Bank deposits huge amount in account and blames owner! (Richard Muirden)
- Risks in secure documents (David Fuller)
- You Think YOU Have Trouble with Your Telephone Company? (Donald B. Wechsler)
- Steve Jackson Games & A.B. 3280 (Brian Sherwood)
- Re: Secure UNIX Infected? (Steve Bellovin, Henry Spencer)
- Dereferencing Tim Kay's address (David Kuder)
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Volume 9 Issue 97 (30 May 1990)
- The C3 Legacy, Part 6: Feedback (Les Earnest)
- Re: You Think YOU Have Trouble with Your Telephone Company? (Rodney Hoffman)
- Right to Privacy, Public Funds, and the 2600 (Bob Estell)
- Re: Steve Jackson Games & A.B. 3280 (Chuq Von Rosbach)
- Re: ATMs robbed with no signs of tampering (Bob Campbell)
- Re: ATMs robbed in Trump Castle (Avi Belinsky)
- Re: Secure UNIX Infected? (Mark Gabriele)
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