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From: pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Internet Virus
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet
Message-ID: <1254@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 16:15:00 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP>
Reply-To: pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul Anderson)
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In article <456@l5comp.UUCP> john@l5comp.UUCP (John Turner) writes:
 >
 >[... regarding the worm...]
 >I believe the contemplated charges are 'unlawful access to a federal computer'
 >(multiple counts?) and 'fraudulent use of a federal computer'; the second
 >charge is good for twenty years hard time, the first for up to a year and a
 >$250,000 fine.  Pretty heavy stuff for a 23 year-old Cornell grad student.
 >		John Turner, john@l5comp,way up in Edmonds WA

Hmmm. Interesting.  What if his worm had a bug in it that was supposed
to keep it from infecting federal computers and it didn't work?  What
then?  :-)

paul


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