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- <text id=90TT1256>
- <title>
- May 14, 1990: Sentenced:Robert Tappan Morris
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 82
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- <body>
- <p> SENTENCED. Robert Tappan Morris, 25, notorious hacker whose
- "virus" stalled thousands of computers nationwide in 1988; to
- three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a
- $10,000 fine. Morris, who did not draw a jail term in the
- closely watched case, was the first person tried under a
- federal law designed to protect computer security.
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- </body>
- </article>
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