[iwar] [risks] Risks Digest 21.70 (fwd)

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Date: 2001-10-20 07:01:55

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:12:29 -0400
From: Tim Hollebeek <tim@hollebeek.com>
Subject: Stray bomb caused by typo

Several sources are now reporting that a satellite bomb that went astray and
hit a residential area did so because the pilot entered one digit wrong when
entering the target coordinates.

Without more information, it is hard to say definitively how this problem
could be avoided, but it certainly seems feasible that systems which display
or accept GPS coordinates could use a check digit that detects one digit
errors and transpositions, much like the one used in credit-card numbers.
If at all possible, systems attached to 2000-lb warheads should be as
resistant to typos as commercial systems are.

Tim Hollebeek

Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:45:59 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Your stolen Passport

ZDNET, OPINION, By Wayne Rash, 26 Sep 2001

The way Dave Thomas describes it, he and his staff were trying to track down
a series of unusual bugs in Windows, when they stumbled across something
that really worried them. There, on their screens along with the code they
were debugging, was the name and password they'd just used for Microsoft's
Passport service. Worse, it was in plain text, and readily accessible. As he
looked more deeply, he realized that creating a worm that could recover that
information would be, in his words, "trivial."

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2814881,00.html

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:55:24 -0700
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