Spread the virus only count computers connected to the network in the world
Just because he wanted to know how many computers there were in the world, the 23-year-old Robert Morris spread a computer virus. This is the first worm worm recorded by the media.
On November 2, 1988, Robert Morris, a student at Cornell University, launched a computer worm and spread it to a tenth of the internet, causing more than 6,000 computer systems to be infected.
The Morris worm code is an incomplete code. It often sends millions of copies to computers on different networks, paralyzing all computer networks.
Police do not spend much time monitoring this hacker. Partly due to the need for "wind" of many young hackers, Morris made a mistake, chatting about the worm months before its release. The case caused $ 100 million in damage.
Morris was one of the first to be tried and convicted under the Computer Fraud Law, but was only punished for community service and fine. Extenuating circumstances are Morris's worm that does not destroy the data content of affected computers.
Later, Morris founded Viaweb, one of the world's first online computer application stores.
Currently, Morris is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).