Word: unix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, Morris' father, Robert Morris Sr.'54 is a nationally known computer expert whospecializes in securing the UNIX system that hisson penetrated...
While an undergraduate, Morris took ComputerScience 148, "Introduction to VLSI Design," anddid a project on UNIX security as part of hiscourse requirements...
Assistant Professor of Electrical EngineeringJames J. Clark, who directed Morris' project inthe spring of 1987, said the effort involveddesigning a more efficient way of encodingpasswords to the UNIX system. These codes aredesigned to prevent unauthorized entry into thecomputer system...
While Friedell praised Morris' ability, headded that the UNIX system, which Morrispenetrated, was known to have dozens of seriousloopholes which could be used by an experiencedhacker...
...programmers' code of honor was broken. The culprit was Ken Thompson, the gifted software engineer who wrote the original version of Unix, the computer operating system now coming into widespread use. Thompson was being presented the Association for Computing Machinery's prestigious A.M. Turing Award when he gave a speech that not only revealed the existence of the first computer viruses but showed the audience how to make them. "If you have never done this," he told them, "I urge you to try it on your...