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Was Hackers referencing a real event?

• deleted 5y ago
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• loloquwowndueo 5y ago
  No, parent is just joking :) The general idea of the original zerocool hack does bear a slight resemblance to the Morris worm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
  • toomuchtodo 5y ago
    It borrows heavily from 1980s cyberpunk/hacker culture [1]. Tangentially, the CFAA was originally passed after Reagan saw the Wargames film [2] and told Congress to send him legislation to address what he thought was the issue [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_security_hacking_incidents#1980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_security_hacking_incid... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames [3] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1400839225918967808 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1400839225918967808
  • ElectronShak 5y ago
    Paul Graham is mentioned [1] in the Wikipedia article. Small world eh [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm#:~:text=however%2C%20Morris%27%20colleague-,Paul%20Graham,-claimed%2C%20%22I%20was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm#:~:text=however%...