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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...
...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...
...machine's software is reported to be controlled by a powerful, versatile operating system called Mach, a variation on AT&T's popular Unix system. (In addition to its other virtues, Mach is designed to allow computers that have been hooked together to share seamlessly one another's processing power.) The core of Jobs' computer is the Motorola 68030, the most advanced general- purpose microprocessor chip on the market. That device's prodigious capabilities have been further enhanced by an array of custom-made chips that are not only state of the art but also artfully laid out. Microsoft Chairman...