It was 1988, when online devices were very limited and mainly concerned university and research facilities, when a student at the famous Cornell University, Robert Morris, accidentally developed the virus that affected 6,000 computers, almost 10% of the world's Internet-connected machines.
Morris's electronic program was released and spread uncontrollably, forcing the technology industry to take measures to limit the infection and, of course, avoid similar malicious actions.
With the then infamous "Morris Worm" forcing the technology industry to take measures to limit the infection and of course avoid corresponding malicious actions.
The eponymous virus was, according to its "father" Robert Morris Jr., now a famous mathematician and cryptographer, "the work of a bored undergraduate student." The young Morris is now a professor at MIT.
The brilliant student had - according to his claim - no intention of turning the early electronic world upside down: a few errors in the program code turned the software into a self-replicating "death machine", which did not take long to be considered sabotage, since we are talking about the Cold War years.
The video retrospective shows the panic that prevailed when Morris's "worm" suddenly brought the phobia of viruses to the Internet, inevitably creating collective paranoia.
Source: dete.gr
