RISKS Digest
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TheRISKS DigestorForum On Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systemsis an onlineperiodicalpublished since 1985 by the Committee on Computers and Public Policy of theAssociation for Computing Machinery.The editor isPeter G. Neumann.
It is a moderated forum concerned with the security and safety ofcomputers,software,and technological systems. Security, and risk, here are taken broadly; RISKS is concerned not merely with so-calledsecurity holesin software, but withunintended consequencesand hazards stemming from the design (or lack thereof) of automated systems. Other recurring subjects includecryptographyand the effects of technically ill-considered public policies. RISKS also publishes announcements and Calls for Papers from various technical conferences, and technical book reviews (usually byRob Slade,though occasionally by others).
Although RISKS is a forum of acomputer scienceassociation, most contributions are readable and informative to anyone with an interest in the subject. It is heavily read bysystem administrators,andcomputer securitymanagers, as well as computer scientists andengineers.
The RISKS Digest is published on a frequent but irregular schedule through the moderatedUsenetnewsgroupcomp.risks,which exists solely to carry the Digest.
Summaries of the forum appear as columns edited by Neumann in the ACMSIGSOFTSoftware Engineering Notes(SEN) and theCommunications of the ACM(CACM).
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- RISKS Digest web archive
- RISKS Digest(Usenet newsgroupcomp.risks)
- Google groups interface tocomp.risks