<tcmay> writes: >> prepared me for my later role as a hunted CyberFelon. ("Shockwave" is >> also credited by many to be one of the first mentions of "worms" in >> computers....though Brunner may've been talking to folks at Xerox >> PARC...wormly cross-fertilization.) and I digress wildly: Mid-November, 1988, after the great Morris Worm Stomp[1], a bunch of people who'd helped hunt the Worm were invited to the NCSC[2] to give talks at a "Post-Mortem", as it were. The MIT and Berkeley crowds had the most real technical data on it[3], though at least one of the government labs had done a fair job at decompiling it. The relevant part was that while the NCSC didn't have much useful info on the Worm itself[4] they had *categorized* it, and among their spiffy color slides, they had a "taxonomy" slide which surprised me by including Brunner's worm. The NCSC seems to officially credit Brunner as the first literature reference to the idea... Personally, I give the credit to David Gerrold, in ``When Harlie Was One''. Here's a netnews posting of mine that explains my reasoning.