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Even better - take a look at http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html. One of the co-founders, Edward Wang, "also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms."


Pretty exhilarating technical prose:

"With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988"

http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html

"The Internet Worm Incident Technical Report"

http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/tech-reps/933.pdf


As a nice aside, when I was at a (British) college in about 1995, years before I got on the internet, I read about Robert Morris and the internet worm, and now I'm posting on a forum created by a good friend of his!

I find it interesting that I spent the first half of my life lusting after communications technology, and the second half getting to grips with it all and even contributing a little.




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