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...that has struck the U.S. in the past year. Similar to its biological counterpart, an electronic virus is a program that copies itself by taking control of a computer's internal machinery. Unlike more malicious versions, the new virus did not destroy data stored in computers, but it did disrupt the work of tens of thousands of researchers hooked into Arpanet. It also penetrated unclassified branches of a second, more secure network called Milnet, which is used by military researchers. Said a Government computer expert: "The kid simply put us out of action...
...probably fall under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. which deals with government computer systems and carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison. That law applies to the case only if it can be proved Morris intended to steal information from restricted computer files or to disrupt computer facilities...
About 30 people picketed in front of the Fly Club Saturday night, asking the club to admit women, but they failed to disrupt a formal event held there that night...
Mitchell ruled that because the board let MIT present evidence that the project would increase the city's housing stock, it must also let members of the anti-development Simplex Steering Committee testify that University Park would push rents up, congest traffic and disrupt its neighbors in other ways...
Roderick MacLeish, general counsel for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said, "If the act was clearly done in a way which would disrupt the game, one could argue against it; but one has to see whether it was in accordance with reasonable considerations of time, place and manner. It seems to be something very compatible with a halftime show...