2 Nov
2017
2 Nov
'17
9 p.m.
On 2 Nov 2017 09:42 -0500, from will.senn(a)gmail.com (Will Senn):
I seem to recall that this story was included as part
of The
Cuckoo's Egg, by Clifford Stoll. I don't recall the specifics and I
wonder if it has a bit of myth included, but somehow it was
peripherally related to the investigations. Fuzzy recollection is
that the worm got out during the investigation Clifford was involved
in and it was Morris's son (Morris being in on the investigation
somehow), and the kid getting off because of the position of the dad
and the newness of the crime... or somesuch - don't shoot the
messenger, but nobody mentioned Stoll, so I thought I'd chime in, in
the hopes it might jog someone else's memory :).
Yes, Stoll did mention the Morris worm in his book. I'm pretty sure
though that, as the story is told there, he found out about it well
after the outbreak began.
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