The problem wasn't that the worm infected computers. That alone would have done nothing except expose security flaws. The problem was that it reinfected them, and then re-reinfected them again.
In 1990, Morris' lawyer argued that he didn't mean for the worm to reinfect machines at such a rate that they became inoperable. It was an accident, and Morris apologized for it on the stand.¹ He had only intended to demonstrate UNIX security flaws in Send Mail and the finger demon, the danger of weak passwords, and other vulnerabilities. The prosecutor, on the other hand, called it a"full-scale assault.
Despite the claim that the chaos he caused was accidental, however, Morris became known for another first when he was convicted of a felony under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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