Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm

I think I recall an explicit statement somewhere from an interview with Robert that the worm was inspired partly by Shockwave Rider. I confess my immediate reaction to the worm was uncontrollable laughter. I was out of town when it happened, so I first heard it from a newspaper article (and wasn't caught up in fighting it or I'd have laughed a lot less, of course); and it seemed to me hilarious when I read that Robert was behind it. He had interned with 1127 for a few summers while I was there, so I knew him as very bright but often a bit careless about details; that seemed an exact match for the worm. My longer-term reaction was to completely drop my sloppy old habit (common in those days not just in my code but in that of many others) of ignoring possible buffer overflows. I find it mind-boggling that people still make that mistake; it has been literal decades since the lesson was rubbed in our community's collective noses. I am very disappointed that programming education seems not to care enough about this sort of thing, even today. Norman Wilson Toronto ON