The Morris Worm

>>57359920
>implying that's not just some random floppy someone still had on his desk

eh
They should've put some device where you can scroll through it and read the source code, like a lot of museums have these days

>99 lines
>don't have it printed on the wall
3/10 museum, should apply themselves

>>57359920

Why would they display a floppy instead of the code? Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

>>57360048
but teh viruses will infect ur compooter

>>57359920
>1988
>Internet
You mean BBSes?

Get your shit together, CHM.

>>57360113
are you retarded? it would spread to smart phones and start a new worm crisis.
anon, i don't think you know how worms work

John Markoff's Cyberpunk has a whole chapter dedicated to it. enjoy.

>>57360200
internet did exist back then you dumbshit

>>57360428
I could've sworn it was just local dial-in BBSes.

Considering entropy, that disk is likely empty now

>>57359920
>implying there's anything more than random noise on that floppy at this point in time
should have used paper

>>57359920
There's some interesting background on it in Cliifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg.
You have your annoted copy handy, right?

>>57359920
>Red pill me
Kill yourself.

>>57359920
>red pill
End thy life, wanton homosexual.

>>57360492
Most of the original 5.25" floppies from my '80s IBM 5150 PC are still readable.

>no source code
probably a random disk 2bh

what was the source written in tho

>>57360214
this. If you don't understand this log off of /g/

>>57360967
what's that to do with 3.5" floppies?

>>57361126
The 5.25" variety are older, and they're soft shelled so they're less protected.

3.5" floppies varied a lot in quality. Shit ones die very readily, and almost any bright colored or clear one is shit. Good quality ones, usually plain black, last a long time though.

>>57360095
>>57361023
>>57361034
https://github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm/blob/master/x8113550.c

>>57361215
they're smaller and denser hence they're more prone to "bit rot" than larger, less dense floppies, and I have never had floppies that lasted longer than a couple of years, even expensive ones, not the off-brand bargain-bin variety.

tl;dr The chances it's unreadable are higher than the chances it's not.

>>57360455
>I could've sworn it was just local dial-in BBSes.
In your country, sure.

>>57359920
How can we be sure that case is strong enough to contain it?

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>>57359920

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>>57361266

>>57360492
this

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>>57364655

It's an SCP.

>>57364655
>wants the source code
>cant even read a link

>>57361266
shit coding style

>>57361266
what would happen if someone where to compile and run this?

>>57366647
you'll be in major news sites within the next 2 hours

>>57361266
that's 101 lines nigga

>>57366656
so no one ever implemented anything to sotp this from becoming wide spread again? how did they even stop it the first time?

>>57366668
linux was invented

>>57366666
nice quints

>>57359920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj8S6Hd-5bk

>>57361266
>tfw when >90% of /g/ doesn't understand how it works

>>57366666

underrated

>>57366459
>unironically using vivaldi

>>57366718
you mean windows

the worm only works on unix-based systems

freetards BTFO yet again

>>57364655

>Doesn't realize source code can't magically compile and run from GitHub.

Get off this board, you do not belong here.

>>57367081

Thanks for biting, newfriend!

>>57367444
Kek

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>>57364655

>>57366637
Well, K&R C looks like this, so...
>>57366647
Nothing as far as I'm aware. Machines are slightly more secure than they were back in the 90s. Also it only works on *nix machines.
>>57366666
2 extra empty lines between the functions. Weren't there in the original code, but just formatted for readability.
>>57366867
You don't either, presumably.
Well, as long as you don't read the wikipedia page.

>>57366666
nice get

>>57360113
>Why would they display a floppy instead of the code? Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

It's symbolic. That little piece of plastic in a transparent cube contains code that caused havoc for something as large as the internet. I think you know how displaying just code to non-programmers would go down ...

>>57360559
>>57360639
CTR tumblrinas detected

>>57360428
why are slavshits so angry all the time?

>>57367055
Well
GNU is not unix-based.

>>57371373
>you know how displaying just code to non-programmers would go down ...
No, I don't.
I get what you're trying to say, that little piece of plastic in a transparent cube had the power to cause chaos to a certain extent. But wouldn't it seem way more impressive to display the code?
Merely 99 lines of simple letters had the ability to do that. A floppy disk is just a floppy disk.
To me, that'd look way more impressive.

Y'all should read the wiki it was nifty to gloss over. Also has a pic of OPs image and the museum this thing is in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

>>57366647
Most likely nothing. Those UNIX exploits that the program required would probably have been fixed by now.

>>57371842
I still run finger. How else will nobody read my .plan?

>>57371679
>But wouldn't it seem way more impressive to display the code?

No, it wouldn't. To the lay person it would be noise. Here, they can see something so small and insignificant holding something ethereal that caused havoc.

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>>57371682
>en.m.

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>>57359920
I'll redpill you by making you swallow my load, faggot.

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>>57372176
Calm down LIFE IS A JOKE and the JOKE is on (((YOU)))

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>>57359920
So.... how expensive would a vintage virus like that be? At least 99 million USD? ;))

>>57361266
Whoever wrote that shit is a shit programmer

unlink(argv[0]);
if(argc != 4)
    exit(1);

So basically if you didn't add in the the three parameters, it just deletes itself and does nothing.

>>57372920
You do know it's a worm right?

>>57372967
You do know it's a shut up.

All I'm saying is that it's better to use

if(argc != 4)
    exit(1);
unlink(argv[0]);

The code is already running in memory, so why not?

>>57371842
>Those UNIX exploits that the program required would probably have been fixed by now.

>open source
>fixed by now

KEK

>>57373079
UNIX wasn't open source at that time.

>>57371994

jesus you sound like a fucking faggot. also you're wrong.

>>57360128
Kek

>>57373263

Unix still isn't open source.

>>57373289
it's symbolic, numbnuts
>b-but muh codes!! t-therefore you're w-wrong!
jesus you sound like a fucking faggot.

>>57373314
Yes, it is.

>>57371679
>> a flo[[y disk is just a floppy disk.
are you genuinely autistic? Do you not understand that things can be representative of other things in a symbolic way?

How long would the floppy still be viable and readable? What's the shelf life for them?

>>57372674
Expensive, as in buying a copy of it or the damage that it caused? Because you don't have to buy it. I have a copy in a folder.

>>57373681
Under good conditions they can remain usable for decades.
I have Windows driver floppies that still work.

>>57364655
you're retarded

>>57371842
You'd hope so right?

right?