Twas the night before finals and all through the lab. Not a student was sleeping, not even McNabb. Their projects were finished completed with care,

in the hopes that the grades would be easy and fair.

The students were wired with caffeine in their veins,

while visions of qualls nearly drove them insane.

With piles of books and a brand new highlighter, I had just settled down for another all-nighter, when out of our gateways arose such a

clatter. I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter. Away to the console I

flew like a flash and logged in as route to fend off a crash. you're Hi, I'm Ran Levy. Welcome back to the Malicious Life Podcast.

In the last episode of Malicious Life I left you hanging.

Robert Morris, creator of the Morris worm, had unintentionally wrecked destruction on a huge portion of the world's computer infrastructure.

In a panic, he convinced a friend from Harvard's Computer Science Department and the

Sudeth to post an anonymous message online detailing how to kill the program.

But there was a problem.

In an attempt to halt the Morris Worm's Path of Destruction,

a systems administrator at Harvard, shut down the university router through

which Andy Sudeth message would be sent to the internet.

The post didn't go through until after it was too late.

Really though, when you think about it, even if it had, those who most needed the information

wouldn't necessarily have even noticed the message because their computers were crashing.

In a tragic movie twist, the Morris worm fixed that everybody needed was heard by no one for precisely the reason they needed it in the first place.

Now it was up to the nerds, those university students and teachers victim to the worm to figure out a fix for themselves.

Not only that, but scientists couldn't even effectively cross-reference their findings across geographical distances.

The worm cut their lines.

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