From f2893ffa9ebda9ade8fead602616d12b84f720c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ChrisArchitect <39932+ChrisArchitect@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 23:46:59 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update: morris post corrections --- _posts/2023-11-02-morris-a-worm-for-our-times.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2023-11-02-morris-a-worm-for-our-times.md b/_posts/2023-11-02-morris-a-worm-for-our-times.md index bf85cbc..5696748 100644 --- a/_posts/2023-11-02-morris-a-worm-for-our-times.md +++ b/_posts/2023-11-02-morris-a-worm-for-our-times.md @@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ tags: ## Morris - A Worm for Our Times -On this day in history the Morris worm was released onto the Internet, wreaking havoc on a number of systems and becoming notorious as one of the first worms distributed on the net. While _the only crime was curiosity_ at the start, aiming to exploit a number of vulnerabilities and explore possibiltiies, the end result was a damaging viral spread thanks to the effects of including code that directed the software to replicate itself in many systems. The impact was far-reaching with systems bogging down to a an unusable state. +On this day in history the Morris worm was released onto the Internet, wreaking havoc on a number of systems and becoming notorious as one of the first worms distributed on the net. While _the only crime was curiosity_ at the start, aiming to exploit a number of vulnerabilities and explore possibiltiies, the end result was a damaging viral spread thanks to the effects of including code that directed the software to replicate itself in many systems. The impact was far-reaching with systems being bogged down to an unusable state.
Photo of a display case at the Computer History Museum containing a single black 3.5-inch floppy disk. A yellow paper tag sitting beneath it with handwriting in pencil: Internet Worm - Source Code X1294.96A-D. A black museum description plackard sits to the left: 'The Morris Internet Worm source code - This disk contins the complete source code of the Morris Internet worm program. This tiny, 99-line program brought large pieces of the Internet to a standstill on November 2nd, 1988. The worm was the first of many intrusive programs that use the Internet to spread.' A red square logo is at bottom of plackard with binary ones and zeroes symbols and white text COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM. -
Internet Worm - decompilation: a floppy disk at the Computer History Museum that contains the source code of the Morris worm. Catalog Number X1294.96A-D. +
Internet Worm - decompilation: a floppy disk at the Computer History Museum that contains the source code of the Morris worm. Catalog Number X1294.96A-D.
With thousands of systems downed and high removal costs incurred its author Robert T. Morris was tried in the U.S. under the _1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act_ and was its first conviction. @@ -35,5 +35,5 @@ This may all sound a bit familiar with similarities to the later journeys of som
Screenshot of a web page from the Internet Artifacts Museum showing a blue and yellow DOS-style text editor screen mounted on a marble stand with marble background as in a museum. The editor screen as various C programming source codes for the Morris Worm. The year highlighted at the top of the interface for the website is 1988. Top corner says NEAL.FUN. -
Thanks to the recent _Internet Artifacts Museum_ project by Neil Agarwal you can see and interact with the source code of the Morris worm in a nice retro-styled IDE in your browser.
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Thanks to the recent Internet Artifacts Museum project by Neil Agarwal you can see and interact with the source code of the Morris worm in a nice retro-styled IDE in your browser.