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Computer Terror! (from 1988)

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The students were safe, their computers weren’t…

A scaremongering US news report from 1988 on a computer virus outbreak (in fact, it was the Morris worm, one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities):


Has a Daily Mail feel to it…

(HT Retronaut)

Written by Tom

13 June 2012 at 1:45 am

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