[RISKS] Risks Digest 26.66

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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest  Tuesday 6 December 2011  Volume 26 : Issue 66

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:
Civilian Use of Drone Aircraft May Soon Fly In the US (W. J. Hennigan)
Underpublicized risks of mobile devices (Valdis Kletnieks)
Comedy of Errors Led to False "Water Pump Hack" Report (Kim Zetter via
  Lauren Weinstein)
GCHQ code-cracking challenge "cracked" -- by a Google search! (Robert Meineke)
Ongoing large-scale distributed SSH brute-force attack (Jonathan Kamens)
Skype flaw reveals users' location, file-downloading habits (Joan Goodchild
  via Monty Solomon)
"Security researchers say HP printers vulnerable to hackers" (Gene Wirchenko)
HP printers can be remotely controlled and set on fire, researchers claim
  (Jon Brodkin via Monty Solomon)
The risks of information sharing? (Steven Bellovin)
Exam Cheating on Long Island Hardly a Secret (Anderson/Applebome)
Apple iTunes ... Trojan horse that gives governments access to your computer
  and files  (Gordon Peterson)
Sneaky Mobile Ads Invade Android Phones (Tom Spring via Monty Solomon)
"Carrier IQ: The Sony rootkit all over again" (Robert X. Cringely)
"CarrierIQ" on various mobile handsets (Android Security Test)
Re: Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases
  (Declan McCullagh)
"Carrier IQ and Facebook pose the least of your privacy threats" (Galen
  Gruman)
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile admit to using Carrier IQ; Apple says it doesn't
  anymore (Lauren Weinstein)
Re: Cybersecurity Requires Patches, Not a Vast Bill (Martyn Thomas)
Re: Complexity (Bob Frankston)
Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)

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