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From: nate@mipos2.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Worm" follows a fictional book plot
Summary: Real virus in the novel
Keywords: virus worm security
Message-ID: <3163@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 9 Nov 88 17:10:58 GMT
References: <32240@oliveb.olivetti.com>
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Reply-To: woodstock@sc.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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In-reply-to: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)

In article <32240@oliveb.olivetti.com>, jerry@olivey (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>[...]  The book is "The Adolescence of P-1" by Thomas J. Ryan.  In
>the book a colledge student sets out to crack the computer system and
>winds up creating a worm which he submits into a small network of systems.

Yes, indeed, a fun, thought-provoking book.

Of course, in _tAoP1_, the program the student creates really *is* a
virus...

--woodstock
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