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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Kid Put Us Out of Action | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...kid," according to the New York Times, turned out to be Robert T. Morris Jr., a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell University. His father is Robert Morris Sr., chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center in Maryland. The center, a division of the National Security Agency, works to protect Government computers from outside attack. The elder Morris, who was one of the first researchers to experiment with viruses at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, when they were still considered a game, is a top expert on combating the kind of sabotage in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Kid Put Us Out of Action | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

ANYTHING FOR BILLY by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The author of Terms of Endearment offers a horse-opera bouffe about Billy the Kid, showing how a Charles Manson in cowboy boots became a national legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 14, 1988 | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...said, 'Keep after this kid, he's brilliant,but he can also get through security holes,'" saidAndrew H. Sudduth '83-'85, a Harvard systemsadministrator and Olympic crew medalist. Accordingto Sudduth, the Bell expert added that Morris "isdeveloping a sense of ethics...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: 'Virus' Whiz Kid Morris Was Hacker, Prankster | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

ANYTHING FOR BILLY by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The author of The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment offers a horse-opera bouffe about Billy the Kid, showing how a Charles Manson in cowboy boots became a national legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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