the internet worm. Although his intentions weren't as evil as yours, he did spend some jail time + lots of comunity time.
For the record -- 1 year probation, 400 hrs community service, large fine ($10K if I recall right.) *NO* actual jail time... it wasn't at all clear that the vendors weren't guilty too :-) Crypto relevance? Well, he *did* keep his files encrypted -- but they got them in cleartext from backups that ran during times he was working on them -- ie, human error :-) It wouldn't have helped him to use PGP. Oh, and all the strings in the program were encrypted with "XOR 0x81", not all that hard to crack. _Mark_ <eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com> ps. For technical info on the Morris program, see http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/eichin/virus/main.html for a start... still in draft form, I'm missing some edits from the final printing.