Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Damage done by the "Cornell virus," a havoc-wreaking computer program written by 1988 Harvard graduate Robert T. Morris Jr., has prompted new interest in the possibility of a program in ethics in technology, computer science professors said last week.
Experts say that at least one in 20 passwords can be guessed quite easily because users choose as their password either their name, the name of a friend, their home city, or other computer-related terms. Morris exploited this fact and programmed his virus to request information about users from...
When the virus found a working password, it logged itself into the machine masquerading as that user, placed a copy of the entire virus in the computer's storage and ran it, fully infecting the target machine.
Morris had accidentally instructed the computer to infect every 10th adjacent computer on the Internet instead of every 10,000th, according to Jeffrey I. Schiller, M.I.T. network manager. As a result, the virus tried to spread too quickly and multiple copies of the virus were sent to the same machines...
Cambridge voting machines, like many across the country, use a computer-scanned punch-card ballot. Voters place the card underneath a "ballot book" containing the names of the candidates and punch numbered holes out of the card with a metal needle.