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- From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
- Subject: Re: [UPI] "FBI probes computer child porn at Cornell"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.004934.21721@dsd.es.com>
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- References: <9211211820.AA14627@crocus.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Nov21.184453.4548@eff.org> <Nov.22.20.51.11.1992.20989@inferno.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:49:34 GMT
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- In article <Nov.22.20.51.11.1992.20989@inferno.rutgers.edu>
- gaynor@inferno.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
- >THE PERSECUTION OF MORRIS WAS UNJUSTIFIED (and I _hate_ using all-caps for
- >emphasis). It was his graduate project in computer risks and security. Given
- >the worm's tenacity, the likelihood of its accidental release is high enough to
- >believe that its release _was_ accidental. Regardless, it did nothing more
- >than propagate itself. Many consider his worm a good thing.
-
- This is rediculous. I attended a talk given by Donn Seeley, one of
- the people who worked with the Berkeley crowd to disassemble the
- worm. There isn't any likely reason to believe that this was an
- innocent experiment gone awry. There is every reason that Morris was
- pulling a prank he expected to get away with.
-
- Many of us lost important time and MONEY in tracking this thing down
- and stamping it out. I don't know _anyone_ who considers this worm to
- be a good thing except perhaps the poster of the above offal.
-
- -- Rich
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