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Malicious Life Podcast: The Morris Worm Pt. 2

Written by Malicious Life Podcast | May 15, 2018 4:24:00 PM

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 Sudduth’s message would be sent to the internet. The post didn’t go through until after it was too late. In a tragic movie-twist, the fix that everybody needed was heard by no one, for precisely the reason they needed it in the first place.