Digital epidemiology!

"If he told his worm not to infect machines already infected, his colleagues could simply feign infections to immunize systems. Instead, he gave it a 1-in-7 chance of reinfecting systems that said they were already infected..."

https://www.pcgamer.com/remembering-the-morris-worm-the-first-internet-felony/

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Remembering the Morris Worm, the first internet felony

In 1988, the US military was invaded by a BSD UNIX worm. It was an accident (mostly).

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