RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Tuesday 17 April 2012 Volume 26 : Issue 79 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ***** See last item for further information, disclaimers, caveats, etc. ***** This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.79.html> The current issue can be found at <http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risks.txt> Contents: Hospital generator failure following earthquake (Jonathan Hunt) For want of an isolating ground, a railroad was shutdown (Danny Burstein) Insider attack on smart meters (PGN) UK Government to give consumers control over smart meter data amidst privacy concerns (Bob Waixel) Why one in five U.S. adults don't use the Internet (CNN) 60% of Wikipedia entries about companies contain errors: correcting them isn't easy (Science News) Computer Fraud Act Case Dismissed (Donn Parker) GPS is a humanitarian weapon system (jidanni) DHS chief contemplating proactive cyber attacks (Steve Johnson via Richard Forno) MintChip -- a virtual cryptocurrency backed up by a government (Mark Thorson) ICANN data breach exposes gTLD applicant data ... (ars technica) CIA's Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies' Cover (Robert Schaefer) "Apple under fire for backing off IPv6 support" (Gene Wirchenko) CISPA, Cybersecurity, and the Devil in the Dark (Lauren Weinstein) Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin (The Guardian) DARPA Challenge Seeks Robots to Drive Into Disasters (ACM TechNews) Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple -- and would-be censors (The Guardian) Re: Unraveling a massive click fraud scheme (Martin Ward) "Did first DDOS attack sink the Titanic?" (Gene Wirchenko) Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks) ----------------------------------------------------------------------