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	RISKS Digest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Security, and risk, here are taken broadly; RISKS is concerned not merely with so-called security holes in software, but with unintended consequences and hazards stemming from the design (or lack thereof) of automated systems.
		Although RISKS is a forum of a computer science association, most contributions are readable and informative to anyone with an interest in the subject.
		The RISKS Digest is published on a frequent but irregular schedule through the moderated Usenet newsgroup comp.risks, which exists solely to carry the Digest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RISKS_Digest (236 words)

	Monkeys are very furious - RISKS Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		RISKS is a very interesting read on what kind of problems are occuring with computerized systems and software.
		Software developers should read RISKS to avoid making the same old mistakes, and to get in the mindset of thinking about these kinds of problems as they design and implement software.
		Unfortunately, the risks have also -- in that the same kinds of problems still recur with respect to safety, reliability, security, survivability, interoperability, human culpability, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum, combined with the reality that so many more people are now dependent upon computers and their interconnectivity.
	labs.patchadvisor.com /blogs/bryan/Permalink.aspx?title=RISKSDigest&... (224 words)

	Risks in Pervasive Computing, Spring 2003
		The intent of this freshman seminar is to discuss issues involving risks in the use of computing.
		In this age of pervasive computing, the risk to the public is clear.
		If possible, the actual risks to be discussed will be provided beforehand so that all students can read up on the risks prior to class.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~djr/classes/s03-Risks.html (994 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 16: Issue 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The risk I see here is that if we continue to cut criminals some slack by placing some of the blame on the victim, we're only going to invite more crime of this sort.
		While RISKS is ostensibly devoted to the foibles of computer generated bugs, readers of the list will probably enjoy _The Coming Plague_ by Laurie Garrett (Farrar Straus and Giroux).
		Many of the themes are familar to RISKS readers: the fix causes more pain than it solves; the bountiful commonweal often comes with a quicksilver lining; and there is no such thing as the last bug.
	safariexamples.informit.com /0130464163/maillists/risks/16.83.html (2972 words)

	Mailgate: comp.risks: Risks Digest 21.89
		We learned last night, when all of our gas-fired appliances stopped working, that "some customers fell through the cracks" during the acquisition, to wit, the new company wasn't refilling their tanks and was apparently relying on calls like ours to let it know whom it had forgotten.
		The risk of mistranslating fields in an acquired database should be obvious, as should the rule that any untranslatable values get flagged and/or at least converted to the least-damaging equivalent in the new system.
		RISK: assuming you can trust e-mail from a conference and a company (RSA Security, Inc. sponsors the conference) which emphasizes security and privacy.
	mailgate.supereva.it /comp/comp.risks/msg00099.html (3153 words)

	discuss@picayune: [1351] in RISKS Forum
		The risk of assuming that an error message means that an order failed, and going and booking somewhere else, not realising that the order really did go through.
		The risk of not knowing what is happening when the people in such organisations don't bother to answer e-mail in a timely manner.
		The risk of have politicians mandate poor quality technical activity is obvious as is the risk of hysteria in a punitive public.
	www.mit.edu:8008 /picayune/risks/1351 (3266 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: PRIVACY RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS
		RISKS cognoscenti understand the term "single point of failure" to refer to the critical dependency of an entire system on one component, certainly a cause of last week's fiasco.
		Periodically I remind you of TWO useful digests related to privacy, both of which are siphoning off some of the material that would otherwise appear in RISKS, but which should be read by those of you vitally interested in privacy problems.
		RISKS will continue to carry general discussions in which risks to privacy are a concern.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Technology/The_Risks_Digest_Volume_19.html (3499 words)

	[risks] Risks Digest 22.59
		Noted deep in the White House's proposed FY2004 budget, the administration is proposing to exempt the Pentagon's controversial national missile defense system from operational testing legally required of every new weapons system in order to deploy it by 2004.
		INFO [for unabridged version of RISKS information] There seems to be an occasional glitch in the confirmation process, in which case send mail to RISKS with a suitable SUBJECT and we'll do it manually.
		Lindsay Marshall has also added to the Newcastle catless site a palmtop version of the most recent RISKS issue and a WAP version that works for many but not all telephones: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/w/r http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/textfiles/risks-digest/.
	www.mail-archive.com /risks@csl.sri.com/msg00186.html (2701 words)

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		But perhaps there is a risk, related to the way a computer sucks your attention into a fl hole where space and time have little meaning.
		This highlights another risk of online documentation: without a careful versioning scheme, it is easy to find oneself fetching documentation for a different version of the software than the code at hand.
		The claimed "risk" seems to be that computers and other electronic devices are being used to kill.
	securitydigest.org /risks/mirror/ftp.sri.com-risks/17/risks-17.07 (3140 words)

	risks - Webled.com
		These risks and costs may not be appropriate for many ]...
		[ risks — detailed studies of particular aspects of specific risks as ]...
		In this paper we shall discuss risks of the sixth ]...
	www.webled.com /risks.htm (351 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 17: Issue 89
		The first risk is that of including 'live' code fragments in a publication, especially one which is subject to several media.
		The second risk is that of using an automated process to construct and publish information on the Web -- especially if the input to that process is e-mail.
		The real RISK seems to be that there is a popularly perceived "standard" -- HTML -- which is in reality incredibly balkanized, with each browser choosing to interpret different subsets and supersets of it in slightly (or not so slightly) different ways.
	www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de /publications/Incidents/DOCS/Institution/Risks/COPY/17.89.html (3410 words)

	Computer underground Digest Sun July 11 1993 Volume 5 : Issue 51 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: J (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Risks (Vol 14 #58) appeared a post, part of which is reprinted below, that makes us appreciate freedom of speech and information exchange we enjoy in the U.S. The primary risk I've learned after reading the post is that anonymous posters with an axe to grind are potential threats to freedom of expression.
		Hiding behind anonymity to reduce the risks of accounting for their accusations, the anonymous posters call not only for silencing, but for sanctions against the sysops.
		This suggests several risks: 1) Posters who are unwilling to accept responsibility for their claims are more able to distort information in ways that leave the target vulnerable and unable to face their accusers.
	www.skepticfiles.org /hacker/cud551.htm (6186 words)

	irrational risk research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's about a set of social psychological ideas about "perceptions" of risk that become newsworthy about once a year despite never seeming to change.
		* Risks that people can take steps to control are more acceptable than those they feel are beyond their means to control.
		The common element, of course, is that is a view of ordinary people as irrational because their rankings of the risks from various technologies are considerably different from those of the experts.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/risks/irrational.html (335 words)

	RISKS DIGEST, dealing with scientology operatives
		Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:32:39 -0800 (PST) If, as was mentioned in the prior edition, the Finish police handed all the anonymous ID database to the Scientologists, many of the people who have used the anonymizing service may RISK exposure to some form of flmail attempts.
		But none of it was illegal." And he points out that in court all the cases were either dismissed or found in his favor.
		So the risk of abuse is clear: you may be identified, and pursued by authority (or by the Church of Scientology) even if you have done nothing illegal.
	www.lermanet.com /cos/risks.htm (1009 words)

	Nursing World \| ANA Press Release: Media Digest -- School Risks, Y2K Risks, Medical Incinerator Risks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dioxin and Mercury "Fallout" from health care poses grave risk, but US EPA standards on medical waste incineration are "irrational" said Federal appellate court on March 3.
		A federal appellate court said on March 3 that, EPA's method [of assessing and setting standards for] this risk looks "hopelessly irrational." As the health care professions' leading patient advocates, RNs have key roles in informing the public of these risks and in pressing for change.
		ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
	www.nursingworld.org /pressrel/1999/pr0304.htm (512 words)

	[Ecommerce] Risks Digest 21.67
		for those who are not familiar with RISKs, it is a free highly regarded digest of risks of technology edited by Peter Neumann, and always a good read.
		Amongst other factors, the mother's age is used to assess her risk category.
		RISKS readers will be reassured to know that (see ): "The new software will be subjected to extensive testing to ensure it is accurate and secure, as well as easy to use.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/ecommerce/2001q4/000605.html (2843 words)

	[risks] Risks Digest 22.29
		The RISKS of having your computer systems changing on their own accord should be obvious.
		So, the system was designed correctly, the administrator used it correctly, but the receptionist interpreted it as "bad" because the result was not what she thought of as reasonable.
		This work has a remarkable consistency, in that the items included are all vague, uninteresting to the professional, and unhelpful to the practitioner.
	www.mail-archive.com /risks@csl.sri.com/msg00156.html (3192 words)

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		The chip's potential for mischief is significant because it was used by major computer makers for more than two years, and some may not be aware of the potential for problems.
		Or maybe he was just reassuring you that the control systems weren't going to rust and jam, and your personal worries about the Airbus (fueled by Gene's stories from RISKS) filled in the "A320" between the lines.
		These systems are still in the relatively early phases of development, and considering the rate at which the operators have to enter the phonetic information they really work amazingly well and provide a very valuable service for the hearing impaired.
	www.phreak.org /archives/The_Hacker_Chronicles_II/risks/risks10.54 (2788 words)

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		Maybe the RISK is in streamlining your engineering process so well, and eliminating so many of the more common mistakes that would have caused delays, that you are already getting final FAA approval before the booboos that only time can reveal are noticed.
		Subject: Risks of HCI designed by non-typist The Management and Administrative Computing Initiative (MACI) is an attempt to get all universities in the UK to use the same computer package for their administrative operations.
		Subject: The Risks of believing in Lawyers Atlas Computer Systems has fired the advertising consultant who suggested that posting an advertisement to all the Usenet newsgroups was an effective way of advertising a 1-gigabyte hard disc drive.
	www.cs.rutgers.edu /~cwm/NetStuff/Risks/Volume17 (19019 words)

	Campaigns and Elections
		Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 14:31:39 PDT From: RISKS Forum RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Wednesday 8 June 1994 Volume 16 : Issue 12 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 18:09:55 -0700 From: Phil Agre <pagre@ucsd.edu> Subject: Campaigns and Elections I encourage everyone to have a look at an issue of the magazine "Campaigns and Elections".
		Quite the contrary, term limits (which PD says he supports) will intensify the role of money and campaign experts, since candidates will be even more unknown to voters on average than before.
		When public debate is conducted through a common medium, such as the newspaper, there exists at least a chance that public decisions that affect everyone equally will be made by the citizenry reasoning together as a group.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/risks/campaigns.html (783 words)

	NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Cancer Risks From Sludge are Small
		Environmental groups have called for the government to regulate the use of sewage sludge, claiming that the chemical dioxin, found in sludge, adversely affects health by increasing the risk of cancer.
		In a worst-case scenario, where a farm family applies sewage sludge to their crops for a lifetime and then consumes a substantial amount of their own crops, the family would develop only 0.003 new cases of cancer.
		Moreover, since the farm family example is not representative of most consumers of food, the risk to the population in general is even less than the risk to a farm family.
	www.ncpa.org /iss/env/2004/pd012204d.html (298 words)

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		RISKS readers are of course familiar with the risks of Web browsing.
		Subject: More risks with MS Outlook The recent threads about information hiding in MS Outlook are quite timely as I've just recently discovered an interesting information hiding "feature" of MS Outlook.
		Many of the topics relate to privacy issues, technology risks, and other matters that should be of interest to current and potential Internet users.
	www.math.grin.edu /~rebelsky/Courses/CS105/2000S/Risks/risks.20.78.txt (3224 words)

	RISKS 2002/01: [risks] Risks Digest 21.85
		The risk here is that someone could look at this Web page and see an invalid date because either their machine has the wrong time or because the Web page was cached somewhere and not re-downloaded.
		The result would be that someone might not find out about an important (high risk) virus that could potentially do a lot of damage.
		That statement fits with the text, but is in some opposition to the assertion in the preface that the book is aimed at all who would need to respond to incidents, including systems administrators and other technical people.
	lists.jammed.com /RISKS/2002/01/0001.html (3848 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 12: Issue 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reproduced in RISKS with explicit permission of the Chronicle for use by the RISKS Forum.
		To bring this back to RISKS: T/CAS is turning into a classic case of what happens when technology is developed and implemented under hysterical political pressure, without a concrete grasp of the consequences.
		The problem is not so much the risks of technology as the risks of underutilizing technology.
	safariexamples.informit.com /0130464163/maillists/risks/12.20.html (4100 words)

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		The risk is subtle: in politics, things are often designed to outwardly resemble their opposites, or to invite confusion or sharply defined contrast (or both) with their opposites.
		Subject: Risks of electronic door locks for automobiles The underlying risk of electronic car door locks is that the state of the lock depends on what a microprocessor believes rather than whether someone has turned a key or pushed a latch button.
		The risks of standing outside a locked car in driving snow on a lightly-traveled mountain road (wearing clothing more suitable for low-altitude desert) should be obvious.
	www.cs.rutgers.edu /~cwm/NetStuff/Risks/Volume16 (17584 words)

	Cryptography Notes: Schneier's Why Crypto Is Hard
		The author(s), the RISKS moderator, and the ACM have no connection with this reuse.
		[The intent of this notice is stronger than the default RISKS policy: This piece may be freely reproduced in its entirety, but only in its entirety without modification, including this banner and Bruce's final line of identifying information.
		In fact, computerization makes the risks even greater, by allowing attacks that are impossible against non-automated systems.
	home.pacbell.net /tpanero/crypto/cryptoIsHard.html (2270 words)

	FightingBob.com: Articles
		In August 1985, the Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947 and considered one of the premier technology associations, created the online Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems (also known as “The RISKS Digest”), sponsored by the ACM’s Committee on Computing and Public Policy.
		Searches of the Digest’s archives turn up scores of reports, from 1985 to the present day, recounting a wide array of disturbing incidents of computer-related anomalies (to use the polite term) and fraud in election procedures and results, not to mention an increasing sense of dismay about elections in the United States.
		For example, a January 1988 RISKS Digest article (“More on Missouri Voting Decision”) describes an eerily familiar scenario.
	www.fightingbob.com /article.cfm?articleID=245 (567 words)

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