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...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...
Other computer centers had better luck. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., alerted to the problem by colleagues at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., immediately "guillotined" their computers from the network to keep from getting hit. As a preventive measure, Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center shut off its system on Thursday. Eventually, the Defense Department brought down both Arpanet and Milnet and began efforts to tighten the security of the networks...
...control advocates were ecstatic last spring when the Maryland legislature passed one of the country's toughest bills limiting the manufacture and sale of cheap handguns. But even as Governor William Schaefer signed the new bill into law, the gun lobby was collecting the 33,000 signatures necessary to put it to a referendum next Tuesday. The result is the most expensive election campaign in Maryland history, a fight that pits the National Rifle Association against many of Maryland's leading politicians...
That charge has been the core of a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign that has saturated Maryland's airwaves since Labor Day. In addition, the law's opponents have used some of the $4 million supplied by the N.R.A. to canvass urban neighborhoods, proclaiming that cheap handguns are often the only means poor people have to defend themselves against crime. Outspent more than 12 to 1, defenders of the gun ban have countered by emphasizing its many influential backers, including the state's largest law-enforcement agencies. Governor Schaefer was so outraged by the N.R.A.'s campaign that he is starring...
Still, his opponents are gaining ground. Last week a Washington Post poll indicated that 49% of probable voters favored the gun law, compared with 44% who opposed it. Following the N.R.A.'s recent success defeating a gun bill in Congress, a victory in Maryland would show that the powerful lobby can blow away gun control even when it gets past a legislature...