human-nets@ucbvax.ARPA (08/13/85)
From: Charles McGrew (The Moderator) <Human-Nets-Request@Rutgers> HUMAN-NETS Digest Sunday, 11 Aug 1985 Volume 8 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: Computers and the Law - Phone Breaking & Carbonless Forms for Credit Cards (2 msgs), Computer Networks - DOD BBS Tracks Export Licenses, Announcements - Forum on Risks to the Public & Call for papers: OIS-86 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue 6 Aug 85 11:22:16-EDT From: Wang Zeep <G.ZEEP%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA> The problem with phone hacking is that one can get free calls anywhere in the country with a power drill and a carbide bit (and a payphone). I haven't seen anybody in the press decrying home hobbyists who own carbide-tipped drill bits, or complaining about hardware stores that sell them. [No, I will not tell you how to drill phones.] wz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Aug 85 17:09 MST From: DPickett@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Subject: Computers and the Law From: David Pickett, Honeywell System M (Multics), Phoenix. The telephone credit card has long been the security farce of the nation. Mine carries the "secret" number in large, easily readable indelible credit card lettering on the face. When the installation of phones with magnetic readers begins, you will have to flash this beauty in all sorts of public places. They will start the installations where they have the most solidly established pattern of fraud, so as to ensure the maximum number of hungry eyes. Then, hungry eyes can take your number to those places where the surveillence is minimum, places that coincidentally didn't get the magnetic readers yet. Perhaps the readers will be small enough so that we can cut the card into two parts, one with the number to hide/burn/whatever, and one with the magnetic stripe and signature (so that you can prove ownership, if necessary). And will the "transition" be over in our lifetimes? In a related note, only Sunoco has had the foresight to get rid of carbons so far as I can see. But the right way will probably be the use of non-unaided-human readable credit identity on the card only. Mobil is using the stripe in preference to the imprint, but my stripes live about 2 months despite special care. ------------------------------ From: tanner <@csnet-relay.arpa,@ucf.CSNET:tanner@ki4pv.uucp> Subject: Carbonless Forms for Credit Cards (vol 8 iss 25) Date: Wed Aug 7 20:26:40 1985 Just yesterday, I ran across these things. If they are here in the booming metropolis of DeLand today, they'll most likely be in your city sometime early next week. tanner andrews, systems ...{decvax|akgua}!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner === <std disclm> <employer disclm> ------------------------------ Date: 9-Aug-85 12:15 PDT From: William Daul / McDonnell-Douglas / APD-ASD <WBD.TYM@OFFICE-2> Subject: Bulletin Board Tracks Delayed Export Licenses To: DIA.TYM@OFFICE-2, ATE.TYM@OFFICE-2, WJE.TYM@OFFICE-2 To: SGK.TYM@OFFICE-2,MARKET.TYM@OFFICE-2 From: MINI-MICRO SYSTEMS/August 1985 pg. 24 The Department of Defense has initiated an electronic bulletin board to help exporters track their export licenses by telephone. Called the Export License Status Adcisor (ELISA), the service can be used to check the progress of export license applications that have been referred from the Department of Commerce to the DOD for review. ELISA's phone number is (202) 697-6109. ------------------------------ Date: Thu 1 Aug 85 15:56:07-PDT From: Peter G. Neumann <Neumann@SRI-CSLA.ARPA> Subject: Forum on Risks to the Public in Computer Systems There is a new on-line forum on Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems. It will be refereed sufficiently to ensure only constructive discussion on that subject. The aims are stated in the first issue, dated 1 Aug 85. Bug your system gurus to set up a BBOARD service (e.g., <BBOARD>RISKS.TXT) and/or a local forwarding service, and have them inform RISKS-REQUEST@SRI-CSL. Contributions to RISKS@SRI-CSL. Back issues will be available on SRI-CSL.ARPA under <RISKS>RISKS-vol.no, where "vol" and "no" are the volume and number. Thus, Volume 1 No 1 may be FTPed from <RISKS>RISKS-1.1, but please set up local services if there are more than a few readers on your system to avoid transmission of many private copies on the network. The coordinator is Peter G. Neumann <NEUMANN@SRI-CSL>. PGN NIC:<NETINFO> MESSAGE: RISKS@SRI-CSL "RISKS" is a distribution list for discussion of issues related to risks to the public in the use of computer systems. It has sponsorship of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy (Chaired by Peter G. Neumann), but is open to everyone. Contributions are welcome on a wide range of relevant topics bearing on the stated subject. Contributors are requested to avoid overt political statements, personal attacks, flames, etc. Inappropriate submissions will be rejected. Back issues may be FTPed from SRI-CSL files <RISKS>RISKS-vol.no where "vol" and "no" are volume and number. <RISKS>Risks-1.1 was issued 1 Aug 85. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to RISKS-REQUEST@SRI-CSL. Adding a BBOARD address is preferable to individual net addresses, to keep net traffic down. Coordinator: Peter G. Neumann <NEUMANN@SRI-CSL> Peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 85 02:50 EDT From: Carl Hewitt <Hewitt@MIT-XX.ARPA> Subject: Call for papers: OIS-86 ****************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * THIRD ACM CONFERENCE ON * * OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: OIS-86 * * * * October 6-8, 1986 * * Biltmore Plaza Hotel * * Providence, RI * ****************************************************** General Chair: Carl Hewitt, Program Chair: Stanley Zdonik, MIT Brown University Treasurer: Gerald Barber, Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra, Gold Hill Computers Brown University An interdisciplinary conference on issues relating to office information systems sponsored by ACM/SIGOA in cooperation with Brown University and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Submissions from the following fields are solicited: Anthropology Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Computer Science Economics Management Science Psychology Sociology Topics appropriate for this conference include (but are not restricted to) the following: Technologies including Display, Voice, Telecommunications, Print, etc. Human Interfaces Deployment and Evaluation System Design and Construction Goals and Values Knowledge Bases and Reasoning Distributed Services and Applications Indicators and Models Needs and Organizational Factors Impact of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Unpublished papers of up to 5000 words (20 double-spaced pages) are sought. The first page of each paper must include the following information: title, the author's name, affiliations, complete mailing address, telephone number and electronic mail address where applicable, a maximum 150-words abstract of the paper, and up to five keywords (important for the correct classification of the paper). If there are multiple authors, please indicate who will present the paper at OIS-86 if the paper is accepted. Proceeedings will be distributed at the conference and will later be available from ACM. Selected papers will be published in the ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems. Please send eight (8) copies of the paper to: Prof. Stan Zdonick OIS-86 Program Chair Computer Science Department Brown University P.O. Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912 DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: Rita Desormeau (401) 863-3302 ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: February 1, 1986 Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1986 Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy: July 1, 1986 Conference Dates: October 6-8, 1986 ***** ------------------------------ End of HUMAN-NETS Digest ************************