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Robert Morris was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1990
- cperciva 16y agoIs there really anyone here who didn't know this already? The Morris worm is as much an essential part of Internet history as the development of BSD UNIX, the creation of the Web, or the millenial dot-com bubble.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoKids today, man.
- fondue 16y agoI knew about the worm but I'm not exactly a fan of the person so I had no idea he was a co-founder of Y Combinator. Next think I know you'll be telling me that a movie actress helped invent a torpedo guidance system.
- teilo 16y agoNot just an actress, but a gorgeous actress, even if she was old enough to be my grandmother when I was born.
- nailer 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
- nailer 16y agoIt's a bit sad that most people know of Morris for his destructive, rather than constructive actions, but Paul Graham seems to be more of the 'face' of YCombinator.
- cperciva 16y agoHowever destructive the Morris worm may have been, my understanding is that it wasn't deliberately so. I'd say it falls very much into the traditional hacker style of "creative endeavours".
- medianama 16y agortm? I remember it was in our text book.