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The Internet Worm Incident (1989)
- guiambros 6y agoTook me a while, but finally found the original article on NY Times [1] by John Markoff that (allegedly) outed Morris as the author of the virus, just 3 days after the infection. And Morris [2] was PG's co-founder on ViaWeb and later YCombinator, so full circle. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/05/us/author-of-computer-virus-is-son-of-nsa-expert-on-data-security.html https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/05/us/author-of-computer-vir... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris