The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6
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The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6 Search RISKS using swish-e Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator Index to Volume 6 Tuesday, 31 May 1988 Issue 1 (2 Jan 88) The Christmas Virus (Martin Minow) Password security in multi-user systems (J. Eric Townsend) Re: Program trading (K. Richard Magill) DES and NSA's new codes (Tom Athanasiou) Electronic Interference (Al Watters) American Express security ... (Henry Mensch) SSN / Phone Number / etc. on credit purchases (Jordan Hayes, David Albert) Issue 2 (4 Jan 88) Source Code is Counter to Viruses & Trojan Horses (Hal Guthery) Viral VAXination? (Bryce Nesbitt) Who is entitled to privacy? (Andy Freeman) SSN / Passport / IRS ... (Joe Morris, Don Wegeng, Jean Marie Diaz, Martin Minow, Brint Cooper, EAE114, John Pershing) Issue 3 (5 Jan 88) Ham radios and non-ionizing radiation (Eric Townsend) Date formats (Geoff Lane) Risks of Not Using Social Security Numbers (Bruce Baker) Source code not a defense (TMPLee, Chris Torek, William Smith, Tom Lane, Don Chiasson, Jeffrey R Kell) Unshar program (Brent L. Woods) Issue 4 (6 Jan 88) PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scot E. Wilcoxon) More on Missouri Voting Decision (Charles Youman) Market for prankster programs? (Geoff Goodfellow) Ham radio operators and cancer (Mark Fulk, Steve Philipson) Getting into ATM rooms (Mark A. R.) Re: Knowing Source Code is not Sufficient (Michael Wagner) Trust and quoting and write-only hard disks (Michael Wagner) Issue 5 (7 Jan 88) Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (John Owens, Paul F Cudney) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.6.html[2011-06-10 18:30:19] The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6 Source code vs. attacks -- Avoidance techniques (David Collier-Brown) Ham Radiation and Cancer (Barry Ornitz [long], Martin Ewing, Douglas Jones) Issue 6 (8 Jan 88) Engines Of Creation, Engines of Destruction (Eric S. Raymond) An Israeli virus (Mike Linnig) Getting into ATM rooms (Bob Larson, Fuat C. Baran) Power lines (Prentiss Riddle) Issue 7 (11 Jan 88 ) You don't need a computer to have a technical RISK. (Joe Morris) Leap second leaps seconds (Alan Wexelblat) Plan to automate Federal tax collection system? (John Gilmore) Creative quality control in missile systems? (Dave Curry) Re: getting into ATM rooms (Eric Skinner) Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Computer asks you your SSI number as ID (Hank Roberts) Computer Virus.... sources(!) (David HM Spector) Reagan Signs Bill Governing Computer Data (Hugh Pritchard) Indianapolis Air Force jet crash (Dave Curry) Issue 8 (12 Jan 88) Missent Missives (Martin Ewing, Leonard B. Bliss) Touch-Tone Risks (Andrew Vaught) American Express Computer Problem 2 (Frank Wales) Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Scott Nelson) UK Logic Bomb Case is Thrown Out (Geoff Lane) SSN abuse warned about long ago (Richard Brown) SSN Required Disclosures -- library social security privacy (Steve Cisler) Issue 9 (14 Jan 88) "The Consultant" by John McNeil (Jim Horning) Re: Missent Missives (Ge' Weijers, Steve Caine, Brent Chapman) Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Sam Cramer) SSN / Phone Number / etc. (Andrew Burt, Bruce O'Neel) Library book borrowing privacy (Geoff Goodfellow, Will Martin, Steve Cisler) SSNs (Ian G Batten) Issue 10 (15 Jan 88) Multimillion $ Fraud Failed due to Computer Error (Frans Heeman) Library Privacy (Michael Wagner) A reverse Heisenbug: it's there only if you look for it (Dave Platt) "The Consultant" on TV (Jim Horning) The timewarps of '88 (Rayan Zachariassen) Issue 11 (22 Jan 88) Another One-Character Error (Earl Boebert) Safety in MIL-STD-2167A (Nancy Leveson) Brady Report on the Crash (Randall Davis) Data tampering, CTFC study of Major Market Index (Randy Oppenheimer) Court drops 'logic bomb' trial (John Pettitt) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.6.html[2011-06-10 18:30:19] The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6 Official word on Social Security Numbers (Rob Austein) VAX/VMS security problem (Philip Taylor via Rob Gross) TimeWarps as an omen (Jeffrey R Kell) New Year's (Robert Slade) Time-chasing (Paul Fuqua) Re: New Year's Sun clock (Martin Ewing) Issue 12 (22 Jan 88) Risks in technology transfer policy (Alan Wexelblat) Trojan-horsed smart terminals? (Tim McDaniel) The virus reaches Israel (Martin Minow) Checking for Trojan Horses and Viruses (Dennis L. Mumaugh) RISKS of uux(1) and trusting remote hosts (Abercrombie) Sheep, Goats, and responding to computer-generated requests (Martin Smith) Proposal for Fault Tolerance Newsgroup (Don Lee) Issue 13 (24 Jan 88) U.S. Fears Satellites Damaged (PGN) Signal-light malfunction blamed in L.A. train wreck (PGN) Big Error on Benefits by a State Computer (PGN) London Underground Ticket Machine fraud (John Pettitt) The responsibility of and for `bringing us C and Unix' (Geraint Jones) Technology transfer policy and Halley's Comet probe (Alex Colvin) Non-ionizing radiation (John Nowack, Jonathan Thornburg) Books about SDI software -- a request (Dan Jones) Issue 14 (25 Jan 88) Safe programming languages (Bob Estell) More about the technology transfer policy (Paul Smee) A second Sun clock error: no sanity checking (John Bruner) "Things That Go 'Beep'" (Paul Fuqua) High-voltages and Europe vs USA (Kee Hinckley) I know why Ham Radio Operators die so often!!! (silly) (Eric Townsend) Issue 15 (26 Jan 88) RISKS in Cable TV? ([...]) Re: U.S. Fears Satellites Damaged (Henry Spencer) My country's misguided technology transfer policy (Geoff Goodfellow) Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Douglas Jones) Re: PCs die of New Year Cerebration (Larry Rosenstein) GAO report on the Oct 19th crash... (Barry Shein) Re: null loops (Mike Linnig) Bloody SSNs again (Hank Roberts) Re: Non-ionizing radiation (Henry Spencer) Issue 16 (27 Jan 88) Computer error blamed for diplomatic fiasco (Bernard de Neumann) A feedback loop in tax preparation algorithms (Lawrence R. Bernstein via PGN) IBM's meaning of "open" in the abbreviation OSI (Peter Sylvester) Bank abandons fouled-up computer system (Rodney Hoffman) Business view of software productivity (Rodney Hoffman) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.6.html[2011-06-10 18:30:19] The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6 VMS and login failure logins (Jerry Leichter) Software Power Switches (Mike Russell) A risk of using spelling checkers (Andy Freeman) Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Andy Goldstein) Re: Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Jim Purtilo) Time Bombs in Bank Computers (John McLeod) Issue 17 (28 Jan 88) Two recent stories with lessons to be learned (Rich Kulawiec) Ada Standard Time (Mike Linnig) Preventing Train Collisions by Technology (Mark Brader) Tax form iteration (G. Ansok, Kenneth Sloan) Boisjoly receives award (Peter Ladkin) Issue 18 (29 Jan 88) Amazing story about shuttle software whistle-blowers (Nancy Leveson) AT&T computer billing error (Dave Curry) A testing time for students (Dave Horsfall) Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Marty Moore) Re: Calendar bomb in the Ada language (Robert I. Eachus, Marty Moore) Technology Transfer Policy (Gordon S. Little) The fine points of fixed points (Jim Horning) Horrendous proliferation of BITNET barfmail (BITNETters PLEASE READ) Issue 19 (1 Feb 88) No Time like the Present for Old Timers (Scott Dorsey) More software future shock (William Smith) TV Remote controls (Richard Dervan) Hertz Computer Hertz Repairees (Dave Wortman) Blowing Whistles or Blowing Smoke? (Guthery) Your SideKick may not be on your Side! (Scott M. Martucci) Re: Library Privacy -- the backup system (David Collier-Brown) Virus anxiety expressed in NY TIMES (Jon Jacky) Re: A feedback loop in tax preparation algorithms (Les Earnest) Issue 20 (2 Feb 88) Unusual Computer Risk -- Harem Scarem? (Mike Bell) Mistaken AIDS warnings (Al Stangenberger) Human error vs human error (and bad design) (George Michaelson) Technology Transfer Policy (Henry Spencer) Re: Blowing Whistles or Blowing Smoke? (Ronni Rosenberg, Dan Franklin, Jonathan Kamens, Phil Agre, Steve Philipson, Frank Houston) Re: Virus anxiety expressed in NY TIMES (Amos Shapir) Issue 21 (6 Feb 88) Delta Air Lines "Computer" Mistake (Chris McDonald) Missouri Voting Decision (Charles Youman) Re: Whistle-blowing (Bob Ayers) Re: RISKS in Cable TV? (Svante Lindahl) Time base on cable TV info (Kekatos) Signals on power lines (Peter da Silva) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.6.html[2011-06-10 18:30:19] The Risks Digest Index to Volume 6 The risk of LOJACK (Johnathan Vail) Risks of helpful news software (Henry Spencer) "My country's misguided technology transfer policy" (Hugh Davies) Issue 22 (8 Feb 88) Software theft (PGN) Macintosh Virus Hits CompuServe (David HM Spector) King Tut, call home! (Bill McGarry) Whistle-blowers (Jon Jacky, Nancy Leveson) Even little computers aren't immune from RISKs (Dave Horsfall) Final results not necessarily correct -- blame the database (Luke Visser) Early Warning Vulnerability (Ronald J Wanttaja) Software Warranties (Nancy Leveson) Issue 23 (9 Feb 88) Don't believe everything you read in the papers. (David Purdue) Anti-virus software (Chuck Weinstock) Virus paranoia (Jeffrey Mogul) All Viruses Considered (Martin Minow) OTA Report: The Electronic Supervisor (Jan Wolitzky) Hub auto-theft lessons; $$$ risks of Lojack (rdicamil) Re: voting (Mike Tanner) Issue 24 (10 Feb 88) Alarming Wenches and Risks of Lojack (Alex Colvin, Scott A. Norton) Re: Software theft (Roy Smith) Interleaving of Early Warning Systems (Ronni Rosenberg) Shuttle Security (Jan Wolitzky) Risk Study Centers (Curtis C. Galloway) Legal Software testing (David Lesher) Re: risks of helpful usenet software (David Herron) Grants-chaos (F.H.D. van Batenburg) Re: viruses (Chaz Heritage) CompuServe virus - more details et cetera (David HM Spector) Issue 25 (11 Feb 88) Something fishy is going on with credit cards (William Daul) "Colloidal goo" considered harmful to ATM's (Jon Jacky) Lottery Random Numbers Too Random... (Henry (H.W.) Troup) New Scientist article on viruses (Bernie Cosell) Virus code and Infected Definitions (Vin McLellan) Yet Another Virus - The "Brain" Virus (Bruce N.