The RISKS Digest
Volume 6 Index

Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems

ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. Baker)
• Two virus messages from Info-IBMPC (Jack Goldberg)
• Virus (Trojan) protection program now available from SIMTEL20(Keith Petersen)
• Another PC Virus (Y. Radai) [still more]

Issue 26 (13 Feb 88)

• Trojan horsing around with bank statements (PGN)
• Star Wars Test (Reid Simmons)
• Last-clasp credit cards (Carolyn M. Kotlas)
• "Inmate gets into computer files"; computer porn (Prentiss Riddle)
• Safe Programming Languages (Martyn Thomas)
• Viruses and Virtual Memory (Dave Tweed)
• Software-based Mugging — RISKS of Dragon Quest(John Elemans via Kevin Kelly)

Issue 27 (16 Feb 88)

• Sometimes doing nothing is doing something (Carl via Jerry Leichter)
• More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Max Monningh)
• Viruses as copy protection (Eliot)
• Re: Trojan horsing around with bank statements (Henry Spencer)
• Re: computer pornography (Jonathan Kamens)
• Emergency Calls misdirected by Cellular Telephone System (Dave Wortman)
• Software Warranties (Robert Kennedy)
• Mag-stripe cards (Joel Kirsh)
• Interleaving of Early Warning Systems (Herb Lin)
• What is the responsibility of Administrators? (Chris McDonald)
• Data Physician — Correction (Re: RISKS-6.25) (Andrew Hastings)
• Reporter seeking virus information (John Gilmore)

Issue 28 (17 Feb 88)

• Interleaved Alert Systems (Earl Boebert)
• Unix Review — Safe and Secure (Aaron Schuman)
• Re: More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Amos Shapir)
• More on LTAC — software review and warranties (Nancy Leveson)
• Re: Software Warranties (Barry Nelson)
• Computer Pornography (Joe Morris, Jay Elinsky, Jim Frost, Don Mac Phee)
• A bit more on the AMTRAK crash... (John McMahon)
• Re: Last Clasp credit cards (Jack Holleran)
• 911 (Brint Cooper)
• Talk on Legal Issues of Computer Graphics by Susan Nycum (Eugene N. Miya)

Issue 29 (19 Feb 88)

• When in doubt, blame the computer. Mistaken-identity nightmare. (PGN)
• Re: Last Clasp credit cards; Mistaken identities (Wm Brown III)
• Magnetic clasps on purses (Art Evans)
• Code-altering viruses (News System Administrator)
• Viruses (Larry Nathanson)

Issue 30 (23 Feb 88)

• The risks of pressing the wrong key — a taxing situation (Gligor Tashkovich)
• Taxing of information (Steven Koinm)
• Using viruses for copy protection (Doug McIlroy)
• What's in a Name, III (Vint Cerf, John Pershing)
• Re: Mistaken Identity (Amos Shapir)
• Details of bank's costly computer foul-up (Rodney Hoffman)
• Voice-print security (and Rory Bremner) (J M Hicks)
• Auto-mated Citations (Mark Brader)
• Re: Shuttle Security (Henry Spencer)

Issue 31 (24 Feb 88)

• Risks of Advertising Messages Appended to Telex Messages (Bruce N. Baker)
• "Viruses? Don't Worry!" (Joseph M. Beckman)
• Held at Mouse-Point; Virus-Information Centres (Dave Horsfall)
• Computer Viruses — a catalog (Dave Curry)
• Another RISK of viruses (David Purdue)
• Virus security hole (Kevin Driscoll)
• Re: More info on Compuserve Macinvirus (Henry Spencer)
• Code-altering viruses (William Smith)
• Self Fulfilling Prophecies, the Chaos Computer Club,... (Frederick Korz)
• Viruses and secure systems (Kian-Tat Lim) [Fiction anticipates fact]

Issue 32 (26 Feb 88)

• Back-Seat Driving Goes High Tech (PGN)
• Lottomatic computing (PGN)
• Billion Dollar Software for $900 ?? (Ken De Cruyenaere)
• Airbus Fly-by-Wire Controversy (Nancy Leveson)
• File matching (Barry Nelson)
• Mistaken Identity and Display of Retrieved Sets (James H. Coombs)
• Re: Taxing information (Dick King, Jeff MacKie-Mason, jong)
• Re: the risks of voice recognition in banking services (Jerry Kew)
• SDI S/W (Fred Baube)
• Request for Viruses to be used to test AntiBiotics (Amir Herzberg)
• Viruses and "The Adolescence of P-1" (Pat Reedy)

Issue 33 (29 Feb 88)

• Risks of Believing in Technology (Matt Bishop)
• Slippery slopes and the legitimatization of illegitimacy (David Thomasson)
• Post Office Loses Its Zip Maker (Charles Youman)
• File matching (Brint Cooper)
• More double troubles (Peter Capek)
• Government accountability rules used to justify inspection of all files (Marc Gibian)
• Counterfeit products (Gordan Palameta)
• Re: viruses (Marcus J. Ranum)
• "The Adolescence of P-1" (Jonathan I. Kamens)
• Computerized voting & punch cards (Will Martin)

Issue 34 (1 Mar 88)

• Leap-year madness (Charles Fineman via Chris Koenigsberg, Michael Wagner)
• Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches (Mark Brader)
• Computer Programmed in Predjudice (Brian Randell)
• Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (Joe Dellinger)
• Slippery slopes and probabilities (David Thomasson, Barry Shein)
• Risks of Believing in Technology (Scott E. Preece)
• Protection of system configuration... (James Ford)
• Stealing Passwords on Telenet (Christopher Jewell)

Issue 35 (2 Mar 88)

• Double pay? Thank the bank. (Dave Horsfall)
• [Psychological Aspects of] Safe Systems (Nancy Leveson, Steve Philipson)
• Disappearing skills (Len Popp)
• Re: Slippery slopes and the legitimatization of illegitimacy (Bob English)
• Sins of RISKS and Risks of SINs (Robert Slade)
• Dumb Digital Leap Year Madness (Mark Jackson, Matthew Kruk, Brint Cooper, Robert Slade)
• Re: Virus security hole (Scot E. Wilcoxon)

Issue 36 (3 Mar 88)

• $9.5 million computer-based check fraud (Donn Parker)
• Captain Zap Zaps Hackers (Donn Parker)
• Police computer problem (Michael J. Wallach)
• On the topic of correlating databases... (Matt Fichtenbaum)
• RISKs of computer swapping (Dave Horsfall)
• Bank ATMs and checking your statements (David Andrew Segal)
• Airbus Safety; Database Accuracy (Mike Olson)
• Slippery slopes & relative risk (Stephen Schaefer)
• Re: Disappearing Skills (Ronald J Bottomly)
• Invalid dates (Ross Patterson, Lee Ridgway)
• Neural networks and P1 (Dave Pare)
• Ada-caused bugs? (Jerry Harper)
• Aerospace Computer Security Applications Conference (Marshall D. Abrams)

Issue 37 (6 Mar 88)

• Finagling Prescription Labels (Robert Kennedy)
• Opus bulletin boards fail worldwide on 1 March 1988 (Thomas Fruin,Dave Platt)
• Social Security Administrator hides computer problems (Ivan M. Milman)
• A320 Airbus Fly by Wire System (Geoff Lane)
• Black Monday not caused by program trading, MIT's Thurow asserts. (LT Scott A. Norton)
• Re: Ada-caused bugs? (Henry Spencer)
• Magnetic card sensitivity test (a sort of) (Matti Aarnio)
• Perrow's "Normal Accidents" (Brian Randell)

Issue 38 (7 Mar 88)

• EPROM Risk (Brian Randell)
• Bigoted expert systems (Jack Campin)
• PC-LOCK — BEWARE (J Greely)
• Yet another antiviral program — BEWARE (Ted M.P. Lee)
• mac II virus (Robert Ward)
• Database Design and Misuse (James H. Coombs)
• Correlating databases; Disappearing skills; Copious warnings (Paul Smee)
• Re: Disappearing Skills (Henry Spencer, Jonathan I. Kamens, David Wittenberg, Mark Vonder Haar)
• Re: Police computer problem — license-plate matches (Brint Cooper)
• Leap year madness (Alan J Rosenthal)
• More on Bank ATMs and checking your statements (Eric Herrmann)

Issue 39 (8 Mar 88)

• Computer error and learned helplessness (Bruce Sesnovich)
• Garbage In, Gospel Out (Ephraim Vishniac)
• Re: Checking Statements & Disappearing Skills (Darin McGrew)
• Disappearing skills (Al Stangenberger)
• Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (David Collier-Brown, Henry Spencer, Andrew Klossner)
• Another Mac virus on the loose? (Chris Borton via Dave Platt)
• The last word (words, words and more words) on viruses (Robert Slade)
• BEWARE of PC-LOCK (James Ford)
• Moving time backwards (Paul Smee)
• Leap Year (Harold E. Russell)
• SDI related sources (Dan Jones)
• Electronic Privacy Act Info Request (Eliot Lear)
• First Boston faces substantial loss (Dave Curry)
• Reliance on computers (Bahn)
• Number plates sans sense (Niels Kristian Jensen via Espen Andersen)[old tale]
• Re: New Macintosh virus... (David HM Spector)
• [Psychological Aspects of] Safe Systems (Hugh Davies)
• Re: Bank ATMs and checking your statements (Paul Fuqua)
• Re: waning arithmetic skills; erroneous large phone bills (Toby Gottfried)
• Trusting your calculator (Dan Franklin)
• Calculator Self Test (was: Disappearing skills) (Mark W. Eichin)
• Re: Disappearing skills (Bruce Hamilton)
• Computer Ethics in the curriculum (Rodney Hoffman)
• Database Correlation (Darin McGrew)

Issue 41 (10 Mar 88)

• Harmless Virus? (Richard S. D'Ippolito)
• Have I Missed Something? (Hacking, Trojan horsing, etc.) (Chris McDonald)
• Leap Year Madness (John W. Taylor Jr.) [... and Daylight Savings]
• "NOPLATE" and "NONE" (Steve Philipson) [... and SEE RISKS-3.12!]
• ATM-OS-FEARic pollution (Jim Sims)
• Another ATM discrepancy story (Ken Yap)
• Re: computer error and learned helplessness (James H. Coombs)
• Why don't they learn? (American vs European Date formats) (Gary Friedman)
• Computers on Aircraft (Keith Bjorndahl)
• Re: Reliance on computers (Inland Steel furnace burnout) (Dan Franklin)
• Lousy Lazy UNIX Linkers (Michael I. Bushnell)
• Need References to "Environmental Bugs" (Gene Spafford)

Issue 42 (13 Mar 88)

• A legal problem — responses sought (Cathy Reuben)
• Computers on Aircraft (Robert Dorsett)
• High-Tech Trucking (Rick Sidwell)
• Re: Programs crying wolf (Peter da Silva)
• Pay cut (Martin Taylor)
• Dangers of Wyse terminals (A.Cunningham)
• Burnt-out LED (G. L. Sicherman)
• Re: Display self-test (Peter da Silva)
• Calculator Self-tests: HP34C has a full functional self-test (Karl Denninger)
• Trying harder on complex tasks than on simpler tasks (Robert Oliver)
• Police using computers - Licence plate matches - etc, etc. (Ted G. Kekatos)

Issue 43 (15 Mar 88)

• Leap-Year No-bull Prize Swap-Meat (PGN)
• A Copycat Scam, or, Ignorance is Bliss (Ted M P Lee)
• RISKS of programmable function keys (Darrell Long, Dave Platt, A.E. Mossberg)
• Re: CONNECT FROM "password stealer" (Peter da Silva)
• Re: Setting Clocks Backward (Scott Dorsey)
• Re: Date formats (Rahul Dhesi)
• End-Of-File checking (Peter Zadrozny)
• Taxing situations: Risks of unbridled complexity (Nelson Weiderman)
• Virus file (Robert Slade)

Issue 44 (16 Mar 88)

• Terry Dean Rogan, concluded (for now) (Hal Perkins)
• RISKS in Bell lawsuit (Alan Wexelblat)
• Hackers to Face Jail or Fines (Anne Morrison)
• Risk in submarine accident; MAC Virus arrives in Germany; German Hacker arrested in Paris (Klaus Brunnstein)
• RISKS in the U.S. Government Archives (sethk)
• MacMag virus infects commercial software (Dave Platt)
• More on the Brandow virus (Dave Curry)

Issue 45 (17 Mar 88)

• Tax penalty (Bob Larson)
• Arete': Risks in Names — RX for Confusion (PGN)
• Trusting aircraft instruments (Spencer Garrett, Steve Philipson)
• Hidden bugs from language extensions (William Smith)
• Date formats (Cormac O'Reilly)
• MacMag virus a SubGenius plot? (Prentiss Riddle)
• Re: Dangers of Wyse Terminals (Douglas Jones, Jim Frost)
• Virus file requests (Robert Slade)
• "NOPLATE" and "NONE" (Eric Norman, lee)
• High-Tech Trucking (Michael Wagner)
• Architecting Telephone Systems (Graham Wilkinson)
• Risks of using computers for Architectural Engineering (Steven Koinm)

Issue 46 (18 Mar 88)

• Incorrect computer data entries hide bridge dangers (Jon Mauney)
• Re: Held at Mouse Point (Bruce N. Baker)
• Federal Archive Integrity (Fred Baube)
• Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wayne H. Badger)
• First-hand problems with Social security numbers (anonymous)
• RISKS in Bell lawsuit (Scott E. Preece)
• Teller Machines (Jon Mauney)
• Program prejudice; ATMs; self-test; unknowns; viruses (Larry Nathanson)
• Viruses go commercial (Norman S. Soley)
• The trouble with "Experts" (Ewan Tempero)
• Thoughts on viruses and trusted bulletin boards (Richard Wiggins)

Issue 47 (21 Mar 88)

• NTP Timewarp - the difficulties of synchronizing clocks (Jerry Leichter)
• USA: Time for wrong time, again (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
• Risks from smart terminals - and risks that aren't there (Jerry Leichter)
• ATMs and Fear of Cameras (Jeff Stearns)
• More Communications Insecurity (Dennis Hamilton)
• What the computer says, goes - even if it is obviously wrong. (Michael Newbery)
• Risks of automatic mailwatch reply programs (Martin Minow)
• Census data availability (Joe Morris)
• Cyber Foundation BBS (James Jones via Martin Minow)

Issue 48 (23 Mar 88)

• Verified microprocessor for critical applications (Jon Jacky)
• Computer rolls give indigestion to voters? (Dave Horsfall)
• Re: "NEW" Amiga virus has arrived in Europe (Harv Laser)
• "Drive by wire" autos in development (Jonathan Jacky)
• The COMMON Code Virus (Kevin Driscoll)
• Lazy Lousy Linkers Leave Large Loophole, Let LowLife Lads Loose (Kevin Driscoll)

Issue 49 (27 Mar 88)

• Risks of loss of privacy from stolen computer (PGN)
• Things that go POOF! in the night (PGN)
• Virtuous Virus Language (Vin McLellan)
• Batch Viruses (Brian M. Clapper)
• Atari ST Virus (Chris Allen via Martin Minow)
• Rhine floods Communication link; Nightmare Virus Construction Set; CCC hackers revenge threat (Klaus Brunnstein)
• The Anti-Virus Business, or, This Generation's Snake-Oil? (TMP Lee)

Issue 50 (28 Mar 88)

• Short stories of old computer risks (Les Earnest)
• NY TIMES on risks of cockpit automation (Jon Jacky)
• Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wayne H. Badger)
• Decomposing checks (David Rogers)
• Notifying users of security problems (Andy Goldstein)
• Entrepreneurial Viruses (Chuck Weinstock)
• Early viruses (Sayed A. Banawan)
• Person-in-the-Loop Amendment Signed into Law (Fred Baube)

Issue 51 (29 Mar 88)

• Drive-by-wire BMW (Zdybel)
• Re: High Tech Trucking (Franklin Anthes)
• Countering driver aggression (Leisa Condie)
• Risks in diving computers (J M Hicks)
• Why gamble on non-redundant systems? (Roy Smith) [lotto]
• RISKS of using the "AT&T Public Phone Plus" (Henry Mensch)
• The risks of rumours (Dave Horsfall)
• Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Wm Brown III)
• Program prejudice and psychological testing (Prentiss Riddle)
• Funny phone (Steve Strassmann)
• Risks there and whoops! still there! (A.E. Mossberg)

Issue 52 (1 Apr 88)

• April Fool's warning from Usenet (Gene Spafford via Cliff Stoll)
• Quebec Probing Leak of Government Information — (Glen Matthews)
• New virus reported (Wes Brzozowski via Dave Goldblatt via Al Stangenberger)
• Virus precursor: "ANIMAL" (Mike Van Pelt)
• More On Race and Ethnicity Questions... (Mike Pabrinkis)
• Re: Short stories of old computer risks (Ephraim Vishniac)
• Re: Notifying users of security problems (Hugh Davies)
• Credit-limit handling found overly restrictive (Henry Mensch)
• Bankcard authorizations (Fred McKay)
• Terminals and checking the facts (Jerry Leichter)

Issue 53 (1 Apr 88)

• Virus attacks RISKS (Martin Minow)
• First International Conference on Secure Information Systems
• Wednesday's time trouble at SRC (and fault-tolerant systems) (Tim Mann via Jim Horning)
• Two old viruses (Bill Kennedy)
• Credit card limits (Richard Wiggins)
• Bankcard authorizations (John Pershing)
• Things that go POOF! (Vander-Vlis)
• Diving tables (Joel Kirsh, Keith Anderson)
• Re: Terminals and checking the facts (A.E. Mossberg)

Issue 54 (4 Apr 88)

• Re: April Fool's Warning from Usenet (Gene Spafford)
• Intolerant Fault-Tolerance (Jerome H. Saltzer)
• How Computers Get Your Goat (PGN)
• Old viruses (Jerry Leichter)
• Re: Notifying users of security problems (Andy Goldstein)
• The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51 (Les Earnest)
• Just Another Unix Spoof (Paul Cudney)

Issue 55 (5 Apr 88)

• Battle of the Virus Hunter (Amos Shapir)
• Software & War (Chief Dan Roth)
• A new RISK prevention scheme? (Eric Haines, not John Saponara)
• Yet Another UnTimely Risk (Paul Cudney)
• Olde Virus Shoppe (Barry Hayes, Douglas Jones)
• Re: (c) Brain VIRUS (Chief Dan Roth)
• Re: Risks in diving computers (Rich Sands)
• RISKS in philosophyland (David Thomasson)
• Risks of NOT giving race/ethnicity (David Rogers)
• Re: More On Race and Ethnicity Questions... (Henry Spencer)
• April Forgeries (Charles Daffinger, Rahul Dhesi)

Issue 56 (7 Apr 88)

• Guess what? A modified FLUSHOT! (James Ford)
• Scrambled FAT from hell (EDRAW) (Jay F. Rosenberg via Geoff Goodfellow)
• Re: Notifying users of security problems (Eric Postpischil)
• Another quarter heard from (re: viruses) (T.M.P. Lee)
• Virus distribution idea (Will Martin)
• Kerberos documentation — [Third-Party Authentication] (Jennifer Steiner)
• Terminals: Why the discussion was interesting (Jerry Leichter)

Issue 57 (7 Apr 88)

• "Drive-by-light" automobile to be demonstrated (Jon Jacky)
• Air Force replacing flight training with simulation (Jon Jacky)
• Cockpit Automation Risks (Alan M. Marcum)
• Ada and exploding missiles (Jon Jacky)
• Bank money machines (Rick McTeague)
• Re: On UnTimely RISKS (RISKs of political consideration) (Eugene Miya)
• How Computers Get Your (Clarified) Goat! (Glen Matthews)
• Philosophy and discrimination (John Lavagnino)
• Comment on "Diving Risks" (Phil Pfeiffer)
• Re: The risks of rumours (Henry Spencer and Ken De Cruyenaere)
• Re: High Tech Trucking (George Michaelson, John Haller)
• Block mode terminals (Steve Bellovin)

Issue 58 (11 Apr 88)

• Computers are a drain on police cruisers (Mark Brader)
• What happened to personal responsibility? (George Michaelson)
• Re: Intolerant Fault-Tolerance (Tom Lane)
• Another Security Clearance Story (Ronald J Wanttaja)
• A new VMS security hole? (Jonathan Corbet)
• Re: Notifying users of security problems (John O. Rutemiller, William Smith)
• April Fool's Warning (Piet Beertema)
• Viruses (Fred Cohen)
• Virus Distribution (Peter G. Rose)
• Re: The "(c) Brain" virus is not a new virus. (Rob Elkins)
• There is a VT220 with block mode available from DEC. (David E A Wilson)
• Enfranchising the disenfranchised: our responsibility? (Tom Betz)
• Discrimination and careless arguments (David Thomasson)

Issue 59 (12 Apr 88)

• Robot suicide (Tom Slone)
• Computer Risks? UUCP map entries? ()
• Comment on "Diving Risks" — Fail Safe Design? (Mark W. Eichin)
• ``How Computers Get Your Goat'' (Kevin B. Kenny)
• Should You Trust Security Patches? (Steve Bellovin)
• Race? (John Macdonald)
• A Cray-ving for RISK prevention (Matt Fichtenbaum)
• Re: What happened to personal responsibility? (Henry Spencer)
• Discrimination (John Lavagnino, Darin McGrew)
• Nonviral biological analogies — a reference (Eugene Miya)
• New constituency for RISKS (Soviets embrace UNIX) (Jon Jacky)
• Vendor speak with "functioned" tongue! (Chris McDonald)

Issue 60 (13 Apr 88)

• Quebec's Centralized Filing System (Glen Matthews)
• State taxes on a new computer system (Steven McBride)
• Feynman & the Challenger disaster (Wm. Randolph Franklin and Willie Smith)
• Risks of computerized editing? (Haynes)
• New risk to computer users identified — VCRs (Gary Chapman)
• Pilotless Combat Planes (Rodney Hoffman)
• April Fool once more (Piet Beertema)
• Re: Macintosh off switch (Mike Linnig)
• Diving (Rich Sands)
• Re: Discrimination and careless arguments (Les Earnest)
• Discrimination — unmuddling the muddlies (David Thomasson)
• What was the question? (John (J.G.) Mainwaring)

Issue 61 (14 Apr 88)

• Obscure C contest gaffe (Matthew P Wiener)
• Risks of Lap-Tops in Exams (PGN)
• Re: Macintosh Power switch (Greeny)
• Crimes of the Depressed (Vin McLellan)
• More evidence for an old risk — Enigma (Dave Mankins)
• Norwegian embezzlement (Eirik Kim Pedersen via David Edwards)
• Race, identification, and muddly thinking (David Thomasson)
• "Race" as ID (Will Martin)
• Re: File "RISKS-6.FEYNMAN" — and a ghost story (Jerry Leichter)

Issue 62 (15 Apr 88)

• Neural Hype (Brian Randell)
• Bay Meadows Sued Over Computer Betting Glitch (PGN)
• Carl's Jr. alleged inside trading caught "by computer" (Dave Suess)
• DoD simulations (Gary Chapman)
• The Israeli virus bet (Y. Radai)
• Types A and B: doesn't anyone read CACM? (Eric Roskos)
• Accountability (George)

Issue 63 (17 Apr 88)

• The Phantom of the Arpanet (Cliff Stoll)
• New VMS security problems? (Klaus Brunnstein and Darren Griffiths)
• Printers as perforators (Stephen Page)
• Another ATM story (Win Treese)
• Re: Accountability (Eugene Miya)
• BENEFITS! of RISKS (Post Office Stamp Machines) (Eugene Miya)
• Color blindness (Rick Sidwell)
• Race, Sex, and other imponderables (Joe Dellinger)
• Ethnics and UCB (Peter da Silva)
• Re: Enfranchising the disenfranchised: our responsibility? (Paul Shields)
• Diving ascent computer (Mike)
• Productivity: Progress, Prospects, and Payoff — Preliminary Program (Charles Youman)

Issue 64 (18 Apr 88)

• Risks of reprogramming keyboards (John Coughlin)
• Fear of flying? (Daniel B Dobkin)
• "Flight international" magazine about civil avionics (L. Strigini)
• Another STARK investigation; faulty simulation implicated? (Jon Jacky)
• Re: Ethnics and UCB (Bob Ayers)
• Re: More evidence for an old risk — Enigma (Henry Spencer)
• Re: DEC's recent security patch (Darren Griffiths)

Issue 65 (20 Apr 88)

• Creating Alternatives to Whistleblowing (Vin McLellan)
• Safety nets under falling bridges (Rob Horn)
• Datamation, 15 April 1988, on "Risk" (Martin Minow)
• Poorly designed error messages (Bob Larson)
• RISKy Airline Meals (Mark Jackson)
• Response-time variability — prior art (Martin Minow)
• Re: Security of OS: who is responsible? Klaus Brunnstein
• Israeli Viruses (Fred Cohen)
• Time-zone problem (Peter Webb)

Issue 66 (21 Apr 88)

• Risk of parolee database that is out of date (Robert White)
• Lap-Tops, etc. in final exams — a common-mode fault (Andrew Duane)
• Airline Risks (David R. Hampton)
• Another ATM story (Dave Fiske)
• More on HP benchmark story: how it might have been avoided (Tom Lane)
• Mongrelism 1: Fuzzy concepts lead to fuzzy decisions (Les Earnest)
• Mongrelism 2: Genetic Classification and the Urge to Merge (Les Earnest)
• Risks of RISKS — textual tampering (Doug Claar)

Issue 67 (24 Apr 88)

• Prestel case concluded (Peter Dickman, M. Douglas McIlroy)
• Mysterious British Death Toll at 10 — another computer engineer dead (PGN)
• SDI feasibility and the OTA report (PGN)
• Trustworthiness of time-stamps (PGN)
• KAL 007 once again
• Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Michael Wagner)
• BIX Ad (Risks of US Mail) (Fred Baube)
• "Momentum" of engineering projects (Charles H. Buchholtz)
• Viruses at Customs (Robert Slade)
• Viruses — SCIENCE and Computers&Society (Howard Israel)
• RISK! in Datamation (Jim Horning)
• Re: Engine explosions due to overspeed, crew stupidity [Unverified] (Joseph Nathan Hall)
• RISKS DIGEST 24 Apr 88
• Lawrence Berkeley Lab computer break-ins (John Markoff)
• Cops Catch Clumsy Computer ``Criminal'' (Curtis C. Galloway)
• Cliff's Little Black Book (Joseph M. Beckman)

Issue 69 (25 Apr 88)

• Social INsecurity (Kenneth R. Jongsma)
• Risks in momentum (Robert Adams)
• BIX Ad (Risks of US Mail) (Henry Mensch)
• At the tone, leave your message at your own risk (Mark Mandel)
• A shortie on color blindness (Eugene Miya)
• Suicidal bandwagon (Geraint Jones)
• YAVR (Yet Another Virus Report) — "Scores" (Fred Baube)
• Requests for advice to the U.S. Congress on viruses (Herb Lin)
• National Policy on Controlled Access Protection (Chris McDonald)
• Re: Accountability (Henry Spencer, Jon Jacky)
• Searching for interesting benchmark stories (Eugene Miya)

Issue 70 (26 Apr 88 )

• KAL007 and Bourland's Electronic Warfare Theorem (Clifford Johnson)
• Powerhouse Patrons Behind ID Tokens (Vin McLellan)
• Virus Sores and Scores (John Norstad via Vin McLellan)
• Britain launches software safety study (Jon Jacky)
• Re: Yet Another UnTimely Risk (John S. Quarterman)
• A slight correction... on Harwell (Mike Salmon)
• Computer Viral Center for Disease Control? (TMPLee)

Issue 71 (28 Apr 88)

• Is the Press impressing or depressing? (They're pressing!) (Cliff Stoll)
• New traffic and automobile techniques at Hannover Fair (Klaus Brunnstein)
• Two viruses (Phil Goetz)

Issue 72 (28 Apr 88)

• Yet another skunk in the squirrel story (Rick Jaffe)
• Garbage ($20) in, garbage ($20) out (Joel Kirsh)
• Re: KAL 007 (Steve Philipson)
• Civil aviation risks (Jon Jacky)
• Re: Creating alternatives to whistleblowing (John Gilmore)
• Re: textual tampering (John Gilmore)
• Re:Fault tolerant systems... (Hugh Davies, Andrew Klossner)
• DoD (and the rest of us) protecting ourselves against viruses (John Gilmore)
• Re: Computer Viral Center for Disease Control? (Prentiss Riddle)

Issue 73 (29 Apr 88)

• RISKS of Amateur Radio Call-sign License Plates (Stanley F. Quayle)
• Social Security Numbers on Driver's Licenses (Stanley F. Quayle)
• A Short List of Nits about "Normal Accidents" by Perrow (Stanley F. Quayle)
• A perspective on viruses (Bill Murray)
• Write-protection for hard disks (Bill Murray)
• FPP and garbled text (Joe Morris)
• Swapping Cash Containers (Joseph M. Beckman)
• Reference Legends of Caltech (Stop ending mail requests!) (Eugene Miya)
• Center for Viral Monitoring — I'm trying! (Chip Copper)
• ATM blues (Bob Sidebotham)
• Yet another ATM story (Bruce Hamilton)
• YADBR (Yet Another DB Risk) (George Michaelson)

Issue 74 (1 May 88)

• KAL007 and Bourland's Electronic Warfare Theorem (Clifford Johnson)
• Prestel Hacking (Brian Randell)
• Uncritical acceptance of computer results (Paul L. Schauble)
• Supermarket buying habits databases (Richard Wiggins)
• Virus protection (Phil Goetz)

Issue 75 (2 May 88)

• The effectiveness of write-protection (WHMurray)
• Brain virus remembered (Fred Cohen)
• To speak of the disease is to invoke it? (Viruses) (Fred Cohen)
• Fear of Fear of Viruses (John Chambers)
• New BITNET LISTSERV group for discussing viruses (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
• Re: KAL007 (Don Wegeng)
• "Human Error" and RISKS of being deceased (Jon Jacky)
• Pitfalls of simulation (economic models) (Jon Jacky)
• Re: bad checks (Brian Kantor)
• Re: NORMAL ACCIDENTS (Jon Jacky)
• Re: Stores and SSNs and Perrow (David Chase)
• W.H.J. Feijen on Formal Specification of Programs

Issue 76 (3 May 88)

• Supporting data for Hirsh's explanation of the KAL007 incident (Nancy Leveson)
• KAL007 (Steve Philipson, PGN)
• USS Stark (Bahn)
• Ada in strategic weapon systems including nuclear attack warning (Jon Jacky)
• Re: Virus protection (David Collier-Brown)
• To speak of the disease is to invoke it? (Viruses) (WHMurray, Henry Spencer)
• Detectability of viruses (Fred Cohen, PGN)

Issue 77 (4 May 88)

• $15.2 million Pennsylvania lottery scam (PGN)
• Risks of marketing computer products (Mark Eckenwiler)
• ERIC and VULT identified (WHMurray)
• Virus Distribution Idea (Fred McKay)
• ATM card / Mail Verification (Bruce Howells)
• Paying Cash to Avoid Records? (Russ Nelson)
• More on engine overspeed and autothrottle (Leonard N. Foner)
• More SS# RISKS (Les Earnest)

Issue 78 (5 May 88)

• Rambling robot disrupts evening news broadcast (Donn Seeley)
• Phone fraud — $150,000 (PGN)
• Blame it on the computer — lost homework! (PGN)
• Re: Creating alternatives to whistleblowing (Henry Spencer)
• KAL 007 (Robert Dorsett)
• Micros & Airlines - A New Angle (Anand Iyengar)
• Ollie North Helps PROFS sales (David A. Honig)

Issue 79 (7 May 88)

• Abuse of power by the press: PCs down BBall scoreboard clocks! (Richard Cook)
• Re: Is the Press impressing or depressing? (Les Earnest, Cliff Stoll, LE)
• KAL007 - the defeaning silence continues (Clifford Johnson)
• Risks of auditing for risks (Doug Claar)
• Viruses and write-protection (Dennis Director)
• Harrier ejection-seat accident (Henry Spencer)
• Re: Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Henry Spencer)
• Risks of Halon to the environment vs. risks of other fire protection (Dave Cornutt>

Issue 80 (8 May 88)

• Yet another SSN risk (Tom Lord)
• Risks of banking (Ritchey Ruff)
• "Auftragstaktik" (Gary Chapman)

Issue 81 (9 May 88)

• Congress, computer breakdowns, and the SDI (Gary Chapman)
• Risks in timestamps (postmarks) (Alan Wexelblat)
• Risks in the phone system (Boyle)
• Risks of banking — audio tellers (Daniel P Faigin, Alan M. Marcum)
• Military Aircraft Crashes in Germany (Michael Wagner, Michael Bednarek)
• KAL 007 (Steve Philipson)
• Atari ST virus hiding place (Allan Pratt)
• Viruses and write-protection (Fred Cohen, Bill Murray)

Issue 82 (11 May 88)

• Risks of Research Computing — Don't ask computers for flavors (PGN)
• Risks of Single Point Failures — The Hinsdale Fire (Chuck Weinstock and Patrick A. Townson)
• Phone system RISKS: Second-order effects (Joel Kirsh)
• Program Trading Halted (PGN)
• Law to Regulate VDT Use (Dave Curry)
• Virus Prose (Vin McLellan and John Norstad)
• Re: "Auftragstaktik" (Henry Spencer)
• Risks of banking — audio tellers (haynes)
• Reliability of SDI-related equipment (Andy Behrens)

Issue 83 (12 May 88 )

• Time-bomb warning: SunOS may have one set to go off TOMORROW! (Dave Platt [2], PGN)
• A reminder on listening to the boy who cried wolf! (PGN)
• Report on the Northwest crash in Detroit (PGN)
• CCC informs on `Virus Jerusalem'; valid threat? (Klaus Brunnstein)
• `Virus Epidemic Center' at Hamburg University (Klaus Brunnstein)
• Risks and Risk Reporting (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
• Hawaiian Tel and HISS — the Hawaiian Islands SysOp Society (Todd South)

Issue 84 (16 May 88)

• Friday the 13th, Part N (PGN)
• 'Jerusalem Virus' Bet Ends in a Draw; May 13th... (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Risks in timestamps ... (Ken Barr)
• Re: Lost homework due to the computer (David Sherman)
• Chicago Phone Fire (PGN, James M. Boyle quoting Christine Winter, Paul Czarnecki, Patrick A. Townson)

Issue 85 (16 May 88)

• Don't always assume the computer is wrong [elevator control] (Greg Kable)
• Warning: Trojan turkey program (Doug Fouts via Tim Morgan and Nancy Leveson)
• Program Trading (Vint Cerf)
• Metallic Helium Balloons (Steven McBride)
• A320 update (Robert Dorsett, Franklin Anthes)
• Navigation (Robert Dorsett)

Issue 86 (18 May 88)

• $70 million computer fraud attempt (Werner Uhrig)
• DeutschApple Virus Alerts (Otto Stolz via Vin McLellan)
• Market stability (Martin Ewing)
• Matching Dormant Accounts (STEYP-MT)
• Risky academic software development (Woody)
• AIRBUS (Steve Philipson, Henry Spencer, Mark Mandel)
• Re: Navigation and KAL 007 (Joe Morris)

Issue 87 (19 May 88)

• Stock Market Damping (Richard A. Cowan)
• Bankwire fraud (Steve Bellovin)
• Metallic Balloons (Keith Anderson)
• BENEFITS! of RISKS (John Kullmann)
• IRS mismatching and other computing anomalies (John M. Sullivan)
• Why technicians wait to respond to alarms (Lynn Gazis)
• Illinois Bell Hinsdale fire (Ted Kekatos, Ed Nilges, David Lesher)
• Risks of Ignoring Alarms (Daniel P Faigin)
• Halon environmental impact citation (Anita Gould)

Issue 88 (19 May 88)

• Soviet Space Shuttle software problem (Tim Shimeall via Nancy Leveson)
• Re: Navigation (Charles Brunow)
• Re: moral obligations with security exposures (Rob van Hoboken)
• Voter registration records and risks to democracy (Philip E. Agre)

Issue 89 (22 May 88)

• Computer problems in the Connecticut State Lottery (Rodney Hoffman)
• Worms in evaluation copies of software (Steve Philipson)
• Comments from the "Bell System" on the Hinsdale Fire (Mike Eastman)
• Illinois Bell Fire (Bradley W. Dolan)
• Smoke detectors and electrical equipment (John Bruner)
• Halon environmental impact citation (Jeffrey R Kell)

Issue 90 (24 May 88)

• "Man Charged with 'Infecting' Computers" (Steve Smaha)
• Automobile recall notice (Martin Minow)
• The Risks of Risks [Second-Order Friday the 13th Effects] (Mike O'Brien)
• Cash on the Nail (Betty Smith via Brian Randell)
• "Sciences & Vie Micro": BILLIONS (Franklin Anthes)
• Who watches the watchers? — Southern Bell outage (Scott Schwartz)
• "The Bell System"; aircraft navigation systems (Steve Philipson)
• Hinsdale File (John Haller)

Issue 91 (25 May 88)

• Computers as a weapon? (Ken De Cruyenaere)
• Aircraft computer malfunction incidents (Nancy Leveson)
• Federal "smart cards" (Gary Chapman)
• Cash on the Nail (Michael Travers via Andrew Scott Beals)
• Style rules - a horror story (Mark Brader)
• Rebuttal on Hinsdale (Patrick A. Townson)
• Risk cost recovery — Hinsdale (Barry C. Nelson)

Issue 92 (25 May 88)

• Down in the Dumps (a true story) (Peter Rowell via David Sherman)
• "Providence Journal" virus (Martin Minow)
• Stock market damping (David Sherman)
• Daedalus and the Thumb Card (Dave Clayton)
• Hinsdale (John [J.G.] Mainwaring)

Issue 93 (30 May 88)

• Westpac disaster revisited? (Dave Horsfall)
• Telecommunications redundancy (Chris Maltby)
• Plastic cash makes for a 'safe' society (Dave Horsfall)
• Re: Daedalus and Cash on Nail (Rudolph R. Zung)
• A Thumbnail Sketch of Daedalus: David E. Jones (John Saponara)
• More on programmed trading (Charles H. Buchholtz)
• Re: Computers as a weapon ? (Amos Shapir)
• Re: risks of automatic test acknowledgement (Carl Gutekunst via Mark Brader)
• The Israeli Virus Bet Revisited (Y. Radai) [long]

Issue 93 (31 May 88)

• The perceptions of novice MAC users (Mark Shand)
• Risk of carrying a bank card? (Robert C. Lehman)
• Optimisers too tacit, perhaps? (J M Hicks)
• Re: Federal "smart cards" (the "Australian Card" scheme) (Jon Jacky)
• National ID card constituency (Andrew Klossner)
• Telco clerks, cellular phones, fire fighting (Andrew Klossner)
• Costs of 24-hr human attendants (Henry Spencer)
• Telecommunication Redundancy (Klaus Brunnstein)
• Re: Down in the Dumps (dvk)

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