Word: stoll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hassle," said Stoll. "I suspect it's an overreaction...I hope the people at the Pentagon come to their senses soon...
Until then, users on the two systems cannot communicate with each other, and the messages they try to send will be put on hold, bogging down the electronic communication channels, according to Clifford Stoll, a computer security expert visiting at Harvard...
...Stoll said he called friends on Tuesday and learned about the intruder--the real reason for the Pentagon's actions--then posted bulletins on Arpanet notifying the computer community...
...Stoll commented that although Morris may not have intentionally designed the virus to be destructive, he did take deliberate measures to make sure that the virus would be difficult to defeat--and that he would not be caught...
...Some people are calling this just a harmless experiment that went wrong. I'm not so sure," said Stoll. "If it were meant to be harmless, then why did [Morris] put in all these defenses? There are still some things that bother me about this...