The Morris Worm

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>implying that's not just some random floppy someone still had on his desk

eh
They should've put some device where you can scroll through it and read the source code, like a lot of museums have these days

>99 lines
>don't have it printed on the wall
3/10 museum, should apply themselves

Why would they display a floppy instead of the code? Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

but teh viruses will infect ur compooter

>1988
>Internet
You mean BBSes?

Get your shit together, CHM.

are you retarded? it would spread to smart phones and start a new worm crisis.
user, i don't think you know how worms work

John Markoff's Cyberpunk has a whole chapter dedicated to it. enjoy.

internet did exist back then you dumbshit

I could've sworn it was just local dial-in BBSes.

Considering entropy, that disk is likely empty now

>implying there's anything more than random noise on that floppy at this point in time
should have used paper

There's some interesting background on it in Cliifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg.
You have your annoted copy handy, right?

>Red pill me
Kill yourself.

>red pill
End thy life, wanton homosexual.

Most of the original 5.25" floppies from my '80s IBM 5150 PC are still readable.

>no source code
probably a random disk 2bh

what was the source written in tho

this. If you don't understand this log off of Sup Forums

what's that to do with 3.5" floppies?

The 5.25" variety are older, and they're soft shelled so they're less protected.

3.5" floppies varied a lot in quality. Shit ones die very readily, and almost any bright colored or clear one is shit. Good quality ones, usually plain black, last a long time though.

github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm/blob/master/x8113550.c

they're smaller and denser hence they're more prone to "bit rot" than larger, less dense floppies, and I have never had floppies that lasted longer than a couple of years, even expensive ones, not the off-brand bargain-bin variety.

tl;dr The chances it's unreadable are higher than the chances it's not.

>I could've sworn it was just local dial-in BBSes.
In your country, sure.

How can we be sure that case is strong enough to contain it?

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this

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It's an SCP.

>wants the source code
>cant even read a link

shit coding style

what would happen if someone where to compile and run this?

you'll be in major news sites within the next 2 hours

that's 101 lines nigga

so no one ever implemented anything to sotp this from becoming wide spread again? how did they even stop it the first time?

linux was invented

nice quints

youtube.com/watch?v=fj8S6Hd-5bk

>tfw when >90% of Sup Forums doesn't understand how it works

underrated

>unironically using vivaldi

you mean windows

the worm only works on unix-based systems

freetards BTFO yet again

>Doesn't realize source code can't magically compile and run from GitHub.

Get off this board, you do not belong here.

Thanks for biting, newfriend!

Kek

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Well, K&R C looks like this, so...
Nothing as far as I'm aware. Machines are slightly more secure than they were back in the 90s. Also it only works on *nix machines.
2 extra empty lines between the functions. Weren't there in the original code, but just formatted for readability.
You don't either, presumably.
Well, as long as you don't read the wikipedia page.

nice get

>Why would they display a floppy instead of the code? Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

It's symbolic. That little piece of plastic in a transparent cube contains code that caused havoc for something as large as the internet. I think you know how displaying just code to non-programmers would go down ...

CTR tumblrinas detected

why are slavshits so angry all the time?

Well
GNU is not unix-based.

>you know how displaying just code to non-programmers would go down ...
No, I don't.
I get what you're trying to say, that little piece of plastic in a transparent cube had the power to cause chaos to a certain extent. But wouldn't it seem way more impressive to display the code?
Merely 99 lines of simple letters had the ability to do that. A floppy disk is just a floppy disk.
To me, that'd look way more impressive.

Y'all should read the wiki it was nifty to gloss over. Also has a pic of OPs image and the museum this thing is in.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

Most likely nothing. Those UNIX exploits that the program required would probably have been fixed by now.

I still run finger. How else will nobody read my .plan?

>But wouldn't it seem way more impressive to display the code?

No, it wouldn't. To the lay person it would be noise. Here, they can see something so small and insignificant holding something ethereal that caused havoc.

>en.m.

I'll redpill you by making you swallow my load, faggot.

Calm down LIFE IS A JOKE and the JOKE is on (((YOU)))

So.... how expensive would a vintage virus like that be? At least 99 million USD? ;))

Whoever wrote that shit is a shit programmer
unlink(argv[0]);
if(argc != 4)
exit(1);

So basically if you didn't add in the the three parameters, it just deletes itself and does nothing.

You do know it's a worm right?

You do know it's a shut up.

All I'm saying is that it's better to use
if(argc != 4)
exit(1);
unlink(argv[0]);


The code is already running in memory, so why not?

>Those UNIX exploits that the program required would probably have been fixed by now.

>open source
>fixed by now

KEK

UNIX wasn't open source at that time.

jesus you sound like a fucking faggot. also you're wrong.

Kek

Unix still isn't open source.

it's symbolic, numbnuts
>b-but muh codes!! t-therefore you're w-wrong!
jesus you sound like a fucking faggot.

Yes, it is.

>> a flo[[y disk is just a floppy disk.
are you genuinely autistic? Do you not understand that things can be representative of other things in a symbolic way?

How long would the floppy still be viable and readable? What's the shelf life for them?

Expensive, as in buying a copy of it or the damage that it caused? Because you don't have to buy it. I have a copy in a folder.

Under good conditions they can remain usable for decades.
I have Windows driver floppies that still work.

you're retarded

You'd hope so right?

right?