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- SUSPENDED. Robert Tappan Morris Jr., 23, Cornell University
- graduate student who last fall bedeviled two national computer
- networks linking universities, corporations and the military by
- infecting them with a computer virus. Morris' mischievous
- software program was apparently intended to produce a slow
- disruption of the networks. But a minor mistake in the
- instructions caused the virus to identify secret passwords, shut
- down systems and replicate itself uncontrollably. While no
- criminal charges have been filed against Morris, Cornell barred
- him from classes until fall 1990.
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