Computer-related Risks
- ISBN-10
- 020155805X
- ISBN-13
- 9780201558050
- Category
- Computers / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design
- Pages
- 367
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Authors
- Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist Computer Science Laboratory Peter G Neumann
Description
"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections on the future."
--Ralph Nader, Consumer AdvocateThis book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, with widely ranging causes and effects. It considers problems attributable to hardware, software, people, and natural causes. Examples include disasters (such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Iranian Airbus shootdowns, the Exxon Valdez, and various transportation accidents); malicious hacker attacks; outages of telephone systems and computer networks; financial losses; and many other strange happenstances (squirrels downing power grids, and April Fool's Day pranks).
Computer-Related Risks addresses problems involving reliability, safety, security, privacy, and human well-being. It includes analyses of why these cases happened and discussions of what might be done to avoid recurrences of similar events. It is readable by technologists as well as by people merely interested in the uses and limits of technology. It is must reading for anyone with even a remote involvement with computers and communications--which today means almost everyone.
Computer-Related Risks:
- Presents comprehensive coverage of many different types of risks
- Provides an essential system-oriented perspective
- Shows how technology can affect your life--whether you like it or not!
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