Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
the Morris worm (1988)
Possibly an experiment to measure the internet's size. A bug made it reinfect machines over and over and bring them down. First person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Later co-founded Y Combinator.
4 sources · 32 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “morris worm”
- Ended at
- CERT Coordination Center
The Trail
- “morris worm” (google.com)
- Morris worm (en.wikipedia.org)
- Robert Tappan Morris (en.wikipedia.org)
- CERT Coordination Center (en.wikipedia.org)
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