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The Morris Worm

The Morris Worm

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Oct 14, 2026

Rob T. LeeGUEST
11:44
You would've heard, like, CrowdStrike or Mandiant or something where something was released.
Rob T. LeeGUEST
11:48
The last time it generally happened was back in the Morris worm.
Rob T. LeeGUEST
11:52
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.
Rob T. LeeGUEST
12:04
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.
Carl BrownHOST
8:32
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.
Carl BrownHOST
8:41
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.
Carl BrownHOST
9:07
I think it was my senior year of high school, something like that, around there.
Carl BrownHOST
9:12
So, I mean, we've had worms and malware and viruses and that kind of stuff for, you
Leo LaporteHOST
28:18
And it, it turns out it not only spread from machine to machine, it spread from network to network and affected the entire internet.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:24
It was called the Morris Worm.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:26
He was arrested.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:28
He was fined.

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Leo LaporteHOST
65:16
Well, this is important 'cause it...
Leo LaporteHOST
65:18
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.
Leo LaporteHOST
65:25
Uh, we know that malware can jump from machine to machine, like the Morris worm did.
Harper ReedGUEST
65:29
Yeah.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:18
And it, it turns out it not only spread from machine to machine, it spread from network to network and affected the entire internet.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:24
It was called the Morris Worm.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:26
He was arrested.
Leo LaporteHOST
28:28
He was fined.

37 MINS LATER

Leo LaporteHOST
65:15
So but all right, well, this is important 'cause it...
Leo LaporteHOST
65:18
I think people, if they're not w- uh, uh, uh, alert to or aware of all this stuff, might think it's possible.
Leo LaporteHOST
65:25
Uh, we know that malware can jump from machine to machine, like the Morris worm did.
Harper ReedGUEST
65:29
Yeah.

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