From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:06:38 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20171102000638.75A9C2158D@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Hi Dave, > (the author claimed that it was accidental, but the idiot hadn't > tested it on an isolated network first). I don't think the author was an idiot; things were different back then. It's similar to Jordan Hubbard's rwall(1) mentioned here at the end of September; someone had to be the first to screw up. He ended up a convicted felon, something I understand is quite serious that side of the pond, that seems harsh, and it must have been quite embarrassing for him given his father was Chief Scientist at NSA, having moved on from Bell Labs: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/crypt.html Without that wake-up call, and the good that came out of it, e.g. CERT funding, it might have been a more rude awakening with more than time burnt? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy