How to cheat at the lottery

[Ross Anderson]

List members may well be interested in my latest paper on computer
security, entitled `How to Cheat at the Lottery'

Ross


Abstract:
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Collaborative software projects such as Linux and Apache have shown 
that a large, complex system can be built and maintained by many 
developers working in a highly parallel, relatively unstructured way. 

In this note, I report an experiment to see whether a high quality 
system specification can also be produced by a large number of people
working in parallel with a minimum of communication. 

Full paper:
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pdf:  		http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/lottery.pdf
postscript:	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/lottery.ps.gz
html: 		http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/lottery/lottery.html

Enjoy!