Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard computer workers will testify before a grand jury tomorrow about late-night phone calls Robert T. Morris, Jr., '87-'88 made to Harvard on the night he allegedly wrote and released a computer "virus" program that crippled computers nationwide...
Aiken Computational Laboratories programmer Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and computer science graduate student Paul Graham are the only people Morris called when the virus began to spread on the morning of November 3, and the two are expected to describe those conversations in detail...
Yale is also suffering from the inexperience virus after losing four starters--including Ivy League Most Valuable Player Paul Maley--to graduation. The Elis will be counting on sophomores Dean Campbell (6.6 p.p.g.) and Travis McCready (3.8 p.p.g.) to carry the load...
COMPARISONS to the movie "Wargames" were quickly made as reports spread that Cornell grad student Robert T. Morris Jr. '87-'88 had disabled thousands of computer terminals at 300 universities, hospitals and research institutions across the country. By introducing a computer virus (a program which reproduces itself from system to system), Morris effectively brought the Pentagon's Arpanet network to a dead stop without so much as an electronic whimper...
...course, we have already heard calls from Morris' associates for leniency. "RTM" (as Morris cleverly dubbed himself), didn't mean to do it, and his virus went awry due to a programming error, say his friends. Other friendly theories propose that Morris was just trying to prove something to his father, a computer scientist with the top-secret National Security Agency, or (get this) he was trying to perform a public benefit by showing how vulnerable the nation's computer systems are. One friend even says the virus will turn to Morris' profit, as his notoriety attracts hundreds of lucrative...