Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would hope that people would look at thereally great benefit he has done," said Sudduth,who said that the virus has helped to make peopleaware that additional security precautions may beneeded in some systems. "He has effectively raisedthe computer users' level of understanding on theissue of computer security...
Others saw Morris' virus as a feather inHarvard's computing cap. One graduate student, whodeclined to be named said, "I was glad it startedat Harvard, because I thought it was an MITprank...
Shattuck said that although Morris was able to introduce a "virus" that disrupted computer systems nationwide into the Pentagon's unclassified computer network, the incident did not justify classifying more information. Instead. the Pentagon should tighten security measures for previously classified information...
Robert T. Morris '87-'88, who masterminded the "virus" program that immobilized computers across the country, studied computer security intensely while at Harvard, where he was known as a creative but innocuous prankster, associates said in interviews this weekend...
While many friends declined to label the first-year Cornell graduate student a genius, they said hard work and an incredible enthusiasm for the subject created a potent programming ability. They said, however, that any computer graduate student was capable ofcreating the virus that entered the NationalSecurity Agency's computer system, haltingterminals at many of the premier researchinstitutions in the country and the Pentagon...