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- Reprinted In File Form On January 30, 1990
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- Orignally Publised In Toronto Star Sunday January 23, 1990
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- COMPUTER ACE GUILTY AFTER `WORM' GOES BERSERK
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- SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A jury found a suspended graduate student guilty
- of federal computer tampering charges last night for unleashing a "worm" a
- rogue program, that crippled a nationwide network of thousands of computers.
- Robert Morris, 24, said trouble started when he made a programming
- error that caused the "worm" to go beserk and cripple the Internet system on
- November 2, 1988.
- It also immobilized an estimated 6,000 computers, including onces at,
- the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, military facilities and
- major univerities.
- Now he faces up to five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
- Morris, a suspened Cornell University graduate student, is the first
- person brought to trial under a 1986 federal computer fraud and abuse law that
- makes it a felony to break into a federal computer network.
- In a closing statement, U.S. Justice Department trial lawyer mark Rasch
- said it was no accident that the "worm" attacked the network.
- The "worm" didn't break in by accident or mistake. Robert Morris
- intended for the worm to break in," he said.
- But defence lawyer Thomas Guidoboni reiterated his argument that it was
- a programming error.
- "It's not the side effects, it's not the mistakes, but what he actually
- intended to do," said Guidoboni. "He never intended to prevent authorized
- access."
- Prosecutor Ellen Meltzer reminded the jury in her summation that
- testimony showed Morris deliberately stole computer passwords from hundreds of
- people so the "worm" could break into as many computers as possible.
- He unleased the "worm" from the computer system at Massachusetts
- Institute of Technology in Cambridge and made it look like it was sent by the
- University of California at Berkeley so authorship of the program could not be
- traced to him at Cornell, she said.
- Guidoboni insisted that Moris of Arnold, Md, didn't intend to cause
- permanent damage to computer files.
- "There was no work lost, work was delayed. That's the bottom line."
- said Guidoboni.
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