• The `Internet' worm:
  - Robert T. Morris, Jnr;
  - introverted student;
  - damage estimated at $10,000,000.

``It's now 3.45am on Wednesday 3 November 1988. I'm tired so don't believe everything that follows... Apparently, there is a massive attack on UNIX systems going on right now... this may be a system wide problem. Symptom: hundreds of thousands of jobs.'' (Cliff Stoll, dockmaster.arpa)

• Convicted, Fraud & Abuse Act, 1986:
  - guilty of `stealing' computer time;
  - Virus Eradication Act, 1990;
  - no virus, didn't attack programs.