It was posted on the comp.risks Usenet group. comp.risks is a forum & newsletter established in the 1980s for the discussions of the potential risks of computer

It was posted on the comp.risks Usenet group. comp.risks is a forum & newsletter established in the 1980s for the discussions of the potential risks of computer technology failures in society, e.g. software bugs in critical infrastructure. Back when the Internet was small, it was a very popular group for anyone interested in infosec and frequently read by many sysadmins and programmers. In a sense, the audience is somewhat similar to today's Hacker News readers. It's an interesting observation that many hypothetical issues discussed by the members back then (e.g. people get wrongful convicted of crimes due to a software bug) has become a reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest