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How One Hacker's Mistake Fashioned the Internet You Use Today

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LinuxSecurity.com; By Max Knoblauch 		Mail this story
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The Department of Defense thought the Russians were attacking. An MIT computer called PREP was the first to be penetrated. It was Nov. 2, 1988, and the time was approximately 8 p.m. Within hours and into the following morning, an estimated 10% of all machines connected to the Internet would crash, overloaded with several copies of a mysterious program.

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