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Slammer
A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process all over again.

Within three minutes after the first Slammer packet was unleashed, the number of infected computers was doubling every eight seconds. Within 15 minutes, large sections of the Net were overloaded and out of commission. See buffer overflow.
slammer
the Slang prison


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After serving 40 years in the insane section of the slammer, he emerges with curly 6in nails, a top hat and a cloak and heads off to indulge in a bloodbath in search of a mate.
Long spells in prison are and can be a deterrent for scumbags - but not if they get a couple of years in the slammer with just as many suspended.
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