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The following books and articles were cited in this document.

  1. Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner and John Markoff, Touchstone Books, New York. 1991

  2. CA-89:04 CERT Advisory, "WANK" Worm in SPAN Network October 17, 1989 (cert@cert.org)

  3. FAQ written by Rober Gasch (rgasch@nl.oracle.com), September 23, 1992

  4. United States General Accounting Office report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives: Computer Security- Virus highlights need for improved Internet management, June 1989
    (Can you tell this was a government document?)

  5. "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988, by Mark Eichin (eichin@athena.mit.edu) and Jon Rochlis (jon@bitsy.mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 1988

  6. March 7, 1991 United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Decision on Morris's appeal of his conviction.

  7. The Helminthiasis of the Internet (RFC 1135) by J. Reynolds (JKREY@ISI.EDU), Network Working Group, December 1989

  8. Improving the Security of your Unix System by David A. Curry April 1990

  9. A Tour of the Worm by Donn Seeley

  10. The Internet Worm Program: An Analysis by Eugene H. Spafford (spaf@cs.purdue.edu), November 29, 1988; revised december 8, 1988

  11. The Internet Worm Incident: Technical Report CSD-TR-933 by by Eugene H. Spafford (spaf@cs.purdue.edu), September 19, 1991

  12. A Report on the Internet Worm by Bob Page, November 7, 1988

  13. Open mail message from Keith Bostic (bostic@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU) on, November 4, 1988, Virus posting #3 (This was the fix for the Finger bug)

  14. And, let us not forget, the actual code for the worm, by Robert Morris, available from remote FTP.


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