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...Cornell panel rejected the idea that Morris created the worm to point out the need for greater computer security...
According to Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85, one ofthe two Harvard affiliates contacted by Morriswhen the worm spread out of control, Morris wassurprised and alarmed at the program's progressand had Sudduth broadcast a warning to computerusers nationwide...
...commission found that Morris probablywanted to spread the worm without detection, butdid not want to clog the computers. It said heclearly should have known the worm would replicateuncontrollably and accused Morris of "recklessdisregard" for the consequences...
...Once the worm was unleashed, Morris made only"minimal efforts" to stop its spread and did notinform any person in a position of responsibilityabout the existence of the program, the commissionreported...
...start. The futurist painters' manifestos of 1910, written by that inspired poet and arch-hypester Filippo T. Marinetti and signed by a clutch of brilliantly gifted artists (Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini), declared war on cultural history -- "the enthusiasm for everything worm-eaten, rotting with filth, eaten away by time...