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Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...
...certainly vulnerable to attack. Last April a pair of publicity- hungry lawyers deluged more than 5,000 Usenet newsgroups with an unsolicited promotional mailing, triggering a flood of angry E-mail massive enough to knock them off the Net. A few years earlier a single "worm" program, designed by a Cornell student to explore the network, multiplied out of control and brought hundreds of computer systems to a halt...
Except for the lucky ones to get there early and snatch a seat, the only way to see any of the action was to worm one's way through the crowd to the front...
...down are clumsily atmospheric; East Germany is free and Glen at last has his divorce, but the connection is stagy. Maybe the moral is, Write about what you know, sure, except if what you know is that your wife's lawyer is a lizard, take the day off and worm...
Give Malone the last laugh, 'cause the "Worm" is a spaz...