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fun read. But...I'm sure there would have been another worm or virus (and many others - like there had been) that would have caused the same vigilant info secu

• shrikrishna 10y ago
  It's a fictional short story, so I am guilty of taking liberties in imagination :) On the other hand, we did luck out that, when our systems were extremely vulnerable, the first attack to demonstrate those glaring issues was not intentionally malicious
• cc438 10y ago
  The way I read it, the point was that "another first virus" wasn't likely to be designed as a benign proof of concept by a tinkerer who meant no harm. The author's view is that the Morris Worm was a happy accident in that it grabbed all the attention owed to the first virus to affect networks on a global scale but it did so without causing any real and lasting harm.
• mannykannot 10y ago
  Given the frequency with which the same mistakes keep on being made (SQL injection, IoT DDOS...) I don't think we did learn much, and the big headlines are still on the cards. Nice short story, though.