RISKS Digest 1533197 217932459 2008-06-08T11:07:06Z Alaibot 1324179 Robot: sorting stub (based on existing categorisation) The '''RISKS Digest''' or '''Forum On Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems''' is an online [[periodical]] published since [[1985]] by the Committee on Computers and Public Policy of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]. The editor is [[Peter G. Neumann]]. It is a moderated forum concerned with the security and safety of [[computer]]s, [[software]], and technological systems. Security, and risk, here are taken broadly; RISKS is concerned not merely with so-called [[security hole]]s in software, but with [[unintended consequence|unintended consequences]] and hazards stemming from the design (or lack thereof) of automated systems. Other recurring subjects include [[cryptography]] and the effects of technically ill-considered public policies. Although RISKS is a forum of a [[computer science]] association, most contributions are readable and informative to anyone with an interest in the subject. It is heavily read by [[system administrator]]s, and [[computer security]] managers, as well as computer scientists and [[engineering|engineers]]. 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. Summaries of the forum appear as columns edited by Neumann in the ACM [[SIGSOFT]] ''[[Software Engineering Notes]]'' (SEN) and the ''[[Communications of the ACM]]'' (CACM). == External links == * [news:///comp.risks RISKS Digest] (Usenet newsgroup ''comp.risks'') * [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.risks Google groups interface to ''comp.risks''] * [http://www.risks.org/ RISKS Digest web archive] * [http://lists.csl.sri.com/mailman/listinfo/risks Mailing List Subscription Web Interface] [[Category:Risk]] [[Category:Safety engineering]] [[Category:Computer security procedures]] [[Category:Computer science journals]] [[Category:Engineering journals]] {{engineering-journal-stub}}