(A better link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/103008-morris-worm.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/103008-morris-worm.htm... ) When my friends

(A better link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/103008-morris-worm.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/103008-morris-worm.htm... ) When my friends and I got our hands on the source code of the worm it took us a while to understand it. It was ahead of anything else we had seen before and it sure pushed a few of us towards computer security. And it served as an early wake up call for sysops, something the Windows camp for example got too late. Now virus and worm researchers have strong and careful methodology. Something particularly interesting today is mobile phone security research performed on Faraday cages: http://radian.org/notebook/van-helsingfors http://radian.org/notebook/van-helsingfors (scroll close to bottom.)