Different from the sculptor or pastor of the same name
Son of a chief researcher at the NSA Computer Security Center, graduated from Cornell University
He was a leading expert in network communications at the time
Robert Morris created the world's first worm (malicious code)
In fact, he created the worm unintentionally and became an unintentional hacker
How many computers are connected to the Internet?
Morris created a worm, or rather, a program to count the number of computers connected to the Internet
This program exploited vulnerabilities in Unix at the time
The program worked by first downloading and compiling 99 lines of code secretly onto computers, and this 99-line code would then download and compile the rest of the extensive code
The program even changed its name periodically without administrator knowledge
