From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:53:53 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! In-Reply-To: <201711020346.vA23koGg029014@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201711020346.vA23koGg029014@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: Having been stupid, to deleterious effect of others, I can't find it in my heart to condemn it in anyone who clearly had a shitload of smarts. I was just selfish (I burned the JANET X.25 budget for the entire campus, logging into the TOPS-10 typing tutor to get X.25 PAD to a vax in edinburgh to connect to EMAS and read emails and oh well ok yes play a lot, a seriously large amount of dungeon. They shut down the Dec-10 typing tutor account and I was forbidden the network for the year) I don't think he actually intended to be that disruptive. In a way, the person most harmed was Morris Senior, wasn't it? (I was at CSIRO, and we got "hit" for want of a better word by morris, but we also got fixed very quickly. From memory, piers dik lauder from Sydney uni actually kept a mail *@* in ACSNet even after this, figuring store-and-forward to everyone at everywhere was actually useful) -G On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote: >> the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first > > That would have "proved" that the worm worked safely, for > once every host was infected, all would go quiet. > > Only half in jest, I have always held that Cornell was right > to expel Morris, but their reason should have been his lack > of appreciation of exponentials. > > (Full disclosure: I was a character witnesss at his trial. A > little known fact is that the judge leaned on the prosecutor > to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor and accepted the felony > only when the prosecuter secured specific backing from > higher echelons at DOJ.) > > Doug McIlroy