The Morris worm has had some other postings here.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302924" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302924</a><p>Here's Eugene Spafford's write up: <a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1701&context=cstech" rel="nofollow">http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1701&...</a><p>Here's Seeley's <i>A Tour of the Worm</i>: <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-RTMworm-89.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-...</a><p>And here's <i>With Microscope and Tweezers</i>: <a href="http://www.mit.edu/~eichin/virus/main.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mit.edu/~eichin/virus/main.html</a>
For some context, this resulted in the author of the virus in question, Robert Morris, being the first person ever indicted under the CFAA. Morris later became one of the four founders of YC.
Wikipedia article about the worm:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm</a>
HTML version:<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1135" rel="nofollow">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1135</a>