Author: Jose Nazario
When I first heard about the concept of an Internet worm—long before I had my first close encounter with the network, back in the ages of its innocence—I was simply charmed—charmed and strangely attracted. It is difficult to answer why—in those days, the term did not seem to be synonymous with destruction, but with ingenuity—and something simply captivating hid behind such a broad and apparently trivial idea. Worms were a threat to be feared, but also the promise of a challenge. This promise put a sparkle into the eyes of many computer enthusiasts, people fascinated with the world of a machine—call them hackers if you wish—who, even though most of them would never admit this, walked a thin line between ambition and humility, imagination and reality, and the law and a common crime, people who would often find themselves on different sides of the barricade because of blind luck or sheer chance and not because of fundamental differences in how they perceived their world. For many, this world was the network.
Those were the naive years, for me and for my colleagues. We had faced a fascinating idea that brought an expectation of a spectacular progress, a mental exercise for both those who defend the network and those who have chosen a less righteous path and we subconsciously hoped for the idea to become a reality. We both feared and admired this perspective, for we understood that it could not be undone. We waited for the inevitable to come, for the next Morris worm perhaps—an elegant, fresh, novel, and effective predator that would make us feel good, once more fighting arm to arm against the threat that had to and would be stopped. We wanted to be amazed, and wanted to win a spectacular battle with no casualties. The last thing we imagined was that worms would become just another vector of pointless and mindless destruction. Why would they?
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