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Robert T. Morris

The creator of the "Internet Worm" that wreaked havoc on many Internet systems for a day or two.

Morris, the son of an NSA spook, did some jail time for releasing the worm.

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It was with admiration rarely applied to saboteurs that the media presented us Robert T. Morris Jr., the 23-year-old "whiz" who brought the 60,000-computer Advanced Research Projects Agency network (Arpanet) to a halt in November.

Revenge of the nerds; the real problem with computer viruses isn't genius programmers, it's careless ones

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