He crashed 10% of the internet. His dad ran cybersecurity at the NSA. 💻

He crashed 10% of the internet. His dad ran cybersecurity at the NSA. 💻 . . . On November 2, 1988, Cornell grad student Robert Tappan Morris, 23, released a worm meant to measure the internet's size. It infected 6,000 machines in hours. He became the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud Act. His father was chief scientist at the NSA's computer security division.