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Peter Neumann talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Mon Oct 19 14:39:58 1992
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 14:25:36 EST
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: developers@MIT.EDU, dcns@MIT.EDU, jon-dist@MIT.EDU
Peter Neumann is speaking tommorow evening. He's always well worth taking
the time to listen to. I highly recommend tomorrow's talk.
-- Jon
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 12:58:46 -0400
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, watchmakers@Athena.MIT.EDU, hackers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: LSC Lecture: Peter G. Neumann, Tuesday October 20
The MIT Lecture Series Committee
Presents
Risks to Human Safety, Security, and Privacy
in Computer-Related Systems
a lecture by
Peter G. Neumann
Computer Science Laboratory
SRI International
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Moderator of the ACM RISKS Forum
Tuesday, 20 October 1992, 8pm in 34-101
Free Admission
This talk will review some of the risks involved in the use of computers,
and what can be done about them. We will consider various examples of
disasters and other illuminating cases of risks involving
* life-critical and other applications requiring high dependability,
* sensitive databases, where increased networking, inadequate
computer security, and unaware or unethical people can make the
maintenance of privacy and database integrity almost impossible,
* computer systems that must not be subverted, e.g., by system
penetrations, misuse by authorized users, Trojan horses and other
pest programs, ...
These three cases might (among other things) suggest the need for
computer systems to preserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, respectively.
Some of the underlying problems that are common to these concerns will
be explored, including both technological and social considerations:
for example, inadequacies of system and software development
techniques, inherent limitations of computers, difficulties in
computer security, lack of predictability, the roles of ethical
principles and legislation, risk analysis, etc. Various
recommendations for the future will be included.
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