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Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, [3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet. [4] Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ...
The worm's creator, Robert Tappan Morris, is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA. [2] A friend of Morris said that he created the worm simply to see if it could be done, [3] and released it from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell. [4]
18 U.S.C. § 1030 (a) (5) (A) United States v. Morris was an appeal of the conviction of Robert Tappan Morris for creating and releasing the Morris worm, one of the first Internet-based worms. This case resulted in the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In the process, the dispute clarified much of the language used in the ...
Founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell, [5] Y Combinator (YC) initiated operations with concurrent programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. However, operational complexities arising from managing two programs prompted a consolidation in January 2009, resulting ...
November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX that are connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
Robert L. Morris (1942–2004), first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh. Robert Morris (cryptographer) (1932–2011), American cryptographer and former chief scientist of the National Security Agency. Robert Tappan Morris (born 1965), son of the cryptographer, creator of the first Internet worm.
Robert Tappan Morris; S. Aaron Swartz This page was last edited on 20 May 2021, at 00:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
West Morris (7-5) pulled within 17-14 with 9:22 left in the fourth on a 1-yard run by senior quarterback Jacob Morris. Old Tappan led 17-7 at halftime after a 31-yard field goal by senior Nico ...