[RISKS] Risks Digest 24.73

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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest  Tuesday 17 July 2007  Volume 24 : Issue 73

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

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  Contents:
CCTV biometric surveillance software fails German reliability test
  (Martin Virtel)
Military files left unprotected online (Randall via Dewayne Hendricks)
Face recognition flop (Christian Kuhtz via Dave Farber)
Microsoft protects me against ... Microsoft (David de Leeuw)
Jogger with iPod Struck by Lightning (Gene Wirchenko)
Phone switch rootkit in Greek surveillance (Jeremy Kirk)
Space Shuttle uses 2-version programming (Andrew Morton, PGN)
Re: N-version programming -- the errors are in ourselves (Peter Mellor)
Re: Gripen: Risks of safety measures in military jet ... (Henry Baker,
  Peter Mellor)
Re: BSoD in standardized tests (Martyn Thomas)
Re: Wikipedia and Responsibility (Joe Bednorz)
Re: Risk with the Mac OS X 10.4.10 version number (Dirk Fieldhouse)
Search Engine Dispute Notification (Jurek Kirakowski)
Exploiting Online Games, Hoglund/McGraw (PGN)
Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)

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