Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the start, the man believed responsible for the unprecedentedly successful--and costly--rogue program is Robert T. Morris, Jr., '83-'85, a Dunster House alumnus and Cornell graduate student. Morris, who is affectionately known as "RTM" by his friends at Aiken Computation Laboratories, immediately drew Harvard into the virus...
Morris' intent and the wording of federal laws form the basis for a "two-pronged" question surrounding computer crime.
"It's a two-pronged test [for federal prosecutors]," said Florida state attorney John A. Frusciante, "[They must prove] what the man did, and what does that violate." Frusciante, who has prosecuted several Florida computer crime cases, is the chair of the American Bar Association's computer crime committee under...
Morris' legal fate depends on the interpretation of a handful of newly enacted or applied federal laws, Frusciante said. These laws--especially the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, a statute prohibiting unauthorized access to stored computer records and a longstanding wire fraud act--represents the federal government's...
According to sections under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, "Intent without authority to access or causing to be accessed [a computer file] that is exclusively reserved for the government of the United States..[and such access] affects the government's [operation] of its computers by means of altering...damaging...