World's Top 10 Hackers

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 19 September 2011, 16:35 IST   |    37 Comments
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2. Robert Tappan Morris:
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He is the creator of first internet worm ?Morris worm? he was a student at Cornell and from that where he started writing codes to create worms as he wanted to know how large the internet world is. But the worm lead to the slow speed of internet and made the systems no longer usable. There was no ways to know how many computers were affected but the experts alleged that around 6000 machines. He was sent to 3 years imprisonment, 400 hours of community service and was fined $10,500. At present he is a professor at Massachusetts institute of technology, computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. He was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.