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... Risks Forum, where (R i j) denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items generally identify contributors and sources, together with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy of Lindsay Marshall: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/VL.IS.html [i.e., VoLume, ISsue] gets the specified issue); http://the.wiretapped.net/security/textfiles/risks-digest/; and ftp://www.sri.com/risks .