HE WANTED TO MEASURE THE INTERNET, BUT ENDED UP BREAKING IT AND MAKING HISTORY

HE WROTE A SCRIPT OUT OF PURE CURIOSITY. BUT HE ENDED UP CRASHING 10% OF THE WORLD'S INTERNET, CAUSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGE, AND BECOMING THE FIRST PERSON EVER CONVICTED OF COMPUTER FRAUD Robert Tappan Morris, a student at Cornell University, didn’t want to be an evil hacker. He just wanted

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