Word: viruses
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This week's testimony by two Harvard computer workers before the federal grand jury investigating the "Cornell virus" is key to an indictment because, unlike in other criminal cases, prosecutors of computer crime must rely on circumstantial evidence to show guilt, experts on computer law said this week...
...same message systems were slowed dramatically last month when the now-infamous "Cornell Virus," allegedly written by Robert T. Morris '87-'88, infected and disabled more than 6000 computers by spreading itself through the university network, called Arpanet, to Milnet. Unlike the effects of the virus, though, the Pentagon's action has not significantly disrupted the Arpanet operation...
Shortly after the incident, media accountsreported that Morris was responsible for creatingthe virus, which spread out of control across anational computer network linking institutionssuch as Harvard and the Defense Department.Experts have marvelled at Morris' ingenuity, andhis friends--primarily Sudduth and Graham--havesaid the act was an accident. Morris himselfseemed nervously to await legal judgment for hismistake...
Baxter would not comment on the grand juryactions and would not say who is beinginvestigated by his office for creating the virus...
Sudduth and Graham have told reporters thatMorris called Aiken labs twice shortly after thevirus appeared: first to announce that the rogueprogram was on its way, and two hours later,distraught, to ask Sudduth to broadcast anationwide computer message that the virus wasspreading out of control. In the second call,Morris gave Sudduth a solution to the program andasked him to broadcast it as well...