
The more we rely on technology, the more power hackers potentially have over us.
Whether their intention is to help or to harm, hackers have the power (like it or not) to change the world.
They may inspire fear, but over the years, we've learned a lot from their snooping and stealing.
No. 1 - Robert Tappan Morris
Even if you know next to nothing about computer viruses, you've probably heard of "worms." That's because news stories about this particularly contagious (and therefore destructive) breed of virus abound.
Blame Robert Tappan Morris for it all.
Back in 1988, while a graduate student at Cornell University, Morris created the first worm and released it on the Internet. He claimed it was all an experiment gone awry,...