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Pete Harbeson
Nov 02, 2021
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The second of November is a big day in computer security; it’s the anniversary of the first significant computer worm distributed over the Internet in 1988. It was the “Morris Worm”, created by Robert Morris, a graduate student at Cornell. His intentions weren’t really malicious, and the worm wasn’t intended to cause any harm — in his graduate work Morr…

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