2 Nov
2017
2 Nov
'17
11:53 a.m.
Having been stupid, to deleterious effect of others, I can't find it
in my heart to condemn it in anyone who clearly had a shitload of
smarts.
I was just selfish (I burned the JANET X.25 budget for the entire
campus, logging into the TOPS-10 typing tutor to get X.25 PAD to a vax
in edinburgh to connect to EMAS and read emails and oh well ok yes
play a lot, a seriously large amount of dungeon. They shut down the
Dec-10 typing tutor account and I was forbidden the network for the
year)
I don't think he actually intended to be that disruptive. In a way,
the person most harmed was Morris Senior, wasn't it?
(I was at CSIRO, and we got "hit" for want of a better word by morris,
but we also got fixed very quickly. From memory, piers dik lauder from
Sydney uni actually kept a mail *@* in ACSNet even after this,
figuring store-and-forward to everyone@everywhere was actually useful)
-G
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
the idiot
hadn't tested it on an isolated network first
That would have "proved" that the worm worked safely, for
once every host was infected, all would go quiet.
Only half in jest, I have always held that Cornell was right
to expel Morris, but their reason should have been his lack
of appreciation of exponentials.
(Full disclosure: I was a character witnesss at his trial. A
little known fact is that the judge leaned on the prosecutor
to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor and accepted the felony
only when the prosecuter secured specific backing from
higher echelons at DOJ.)
Doug McIlroy