The Morris Worm
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Oct 14, 2026
Everyone’s Worried AI Will Destroy Us. This Cybersecurity Pioneer Sees a Different Problem
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11:44Rob T. LeeGUEST
You would've heard, like, CrowdStrike or Mandiant or something where something was released.
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11:48Rob T. LeeGUEST
The last time it generally happened was back in the Morris worm.
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11:52Rob T. LeeGUEST
The reason I lean into that is that there's a absence of cybersecurity know-how that is sitting inside the frontier models', uh, companies, you know, those who are developing it.
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12:04Rob T. LeeGUEST
You don't see one of the most sufficiently staffed ... groups that are out there that have hired the biggest talent in cybersecurity that says, "When we do our testing to figure out how these things work, we're going to be able to contain it." And right now, it's like, "Well, it's hard, it's hard to contain." I don't believe that.
Pause AI? Should we? If so, how do we make it matter?
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8:32Carl BrownHOST
You have to decide whether there was intent there or not before you can treat it like you'd treat a company that writes malware.
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8:41Carl BrownHOST
But if you were treating it like the result... right, then it's not really any different than what malware does, right? And so in that sense, malware is a normal technology in the sense that we've dealt with it for 30 freaking years, if not 40 or something, right? Morris Worm was in 88, I think.
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9:07Carl BrownHOST
I think it was my senior year of high school, something like that, around there.
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9:12Carl BrownHOST
So, I mean, we've had worms and malware and viruses and that kind of stuff for, you
Raspberry Pi in the Sky - What OpenAI's Security Fiasco Means for Tech Safety
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28:18Leo LaporteHOST
And it, it turns out it not only spread from machine to machine, it spread from network to network and affected the entire internet.
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28:24Leo LaporteHOST
It was called the Morris Worm.
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28:26Leo LaporteHOST
He was arrested.
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28:28Leo LaporteHOST
He was fined.
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65:16Leo LaporteHOST
Well, this is important 'cause it...
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65:18Leo LaporteHOST
I think people, if they're not w- uh, uh, uh, alert to all or aware of all this stuff, might think it's possible.
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65:25Leo LaporteHOST
Uh, we know that malware can jump from machine to machine, like the Morris worm did.
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65:29Harper ReedGUEST
Yeah.
This Week in Tech 1103: Raspberry Pi in the Sky
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28:18Leo LaporteHOST
And it, it turns out it not only spread from machine to machine, it spread from network to network and affected the entire internet.
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28:24Leo LaporteHOST
It was called the Morris Worm.
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28:26Leo LaporteHOST
He was arrested.
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28:28Leo LaporteHOST
He was fined.
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65:15Leo LaporteHOST
So but all right, well, this is important 'cause it...
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65:18Leo LaporteHOST
I think people, if they're not w- uh, uh, uh, alert to or aware of all this stuff, might think it's possible.
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65:25Leo LaporteHOST
Uh, we know that malware can jump from machine to machine, like the Morris worm did.
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65:29Harper ReedGUEST
Yeah.