MORRIS: Earth's First Computer Worm

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11:30 - This feeling has been defined as "Sonder" - "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own-populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness-an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

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I have felt that a lot, thanks for telling me the name!

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"Sonder " felt that

[@von...]

damn I just wrote a comment saying this in short. well, good idea to do that much earlier than me my dude haha

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Yeah I recently learned about that definition and it instantly made me think of when I recorded that voice message.

[@nicholla6150]

I always thought Sonder meant like daintily tiptoeing across the room.

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This is a positive comment for the KZbin algorithm.

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This too.

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Yes

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Some of these aren't real? My whole life feels like a lie

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@@JodieBarbwireHeart same.

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I think op was just referring to the homeless hacker ad in the middle of the video

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@@JodieBarbwireHeart 😭😭😭

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AYO THE PROFILE?!! 0.o Don’t act like you don’t know bro 😳

[@SheNeverCared]

can't even express how many computers got killed downloading stuff from limewire back in the day

[@DrDingsGaster]

I fucked up my family's computer when I was younger doing just that. xDDD

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Bruh , ain't that a trip lmao, me and my brothers ruined a few computers with limewire and Kazaa, even Napster 🤣

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I definitely ruined a laptop with Limewire haha

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at least 7..

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That moment at 3:49 really frigging scared me! That was so smart, execution was great!!

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i almost shat myself for a moment 💀

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I GOT SO FUCKING SCAREDDD I just checked the comments My heart is still racing omgggg

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Anyone else touch their phone screen just to make sure everything was OK? Needless to say, that was brilliant.

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That caught me off guard

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My heart literally dropped.

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The Detail with „Just a guy without a mustache“ at the beginning shows how well done this video is

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Ikr I was like "YES"

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The compression is so high I can hear all of the spitty mouth sounds. Swear he's putting more processing on his voice every other video now.

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That reference to “just some guy without a mustache” was so perfect. For some reason I always see him in the comment section videos at least once per day. And most of the time he’s either top comment or very close to it.

[@502C.r.H]

I don't think he's human, he has certainly transcended but to what exactly I'm afraid to fathom...

[@gudshjrehand3739]

Yeah I was kinda disapointed that he didn't comment here.

[@ItsAMoth599]

The vibes of a Disrupt video always feel like a good fever dream. Edit: I've always heard the programming error of the Morris Worm was that it was supposed to reinfect 1/15 computers, but it reinfected 14/15 computers. Guess I was wrong about that one.

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Its like a trip

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Maybe there's an ai behind it...

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That feeling he's describing at the end where you realize that other people have full lives of their own that never really connect with yours is called sonder.

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As a computer nerd I absolutely love these videos

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As a computer I absolutely love these videos.

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As a computer nerd, aspiring software engineer and aspiring white hat hacker. Same. Also you should check out computerphile if you haven’t already.

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@@CockatooDude as a hard drive I absolutely love these videos

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@@PeanutTheSnail **hits blunt** ... Whoa

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These videos always make me want to explore the fields of cybersecurity

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Oh my God the production quality lad! The effort to make those 3D scenes, everything is so visually appealing and the way you explain everything is super clear, accurate, and interiguing!

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I absolutely love this channel. Feels like a mini television show with commercials, bumps and all. Make videos and hour long and I'll eat it up even more.

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10:59 "400 hours of community service. at a location far from any computer" *just zooms out of the fucking earth* WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.

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They threw his ass in space

[@Shreeechan]

Bruh when there was the animation of him skipping through the video I thought my phone was freaking out or something. Very well done. Love these videos and there style.

[@bbear3886]

I thought the same

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God I ADORE the aesthetic of these videos, the production value is beautiful!

[@austinreed5805]

Good thing this was released when the internet was in its infancy. If released today, it would cause a lot more damage. (If the program was able to get past today’s defenses, of course.)

[@Bruh-sp2bj]

yeah but thats way harder the internet in its infancy had little security measures

[@1GREECE1AKHF]

@@Bruh-sp2bj On the other hand, we rely too much on them and click whatever.

[@1ben99]

Back in the internet's infancy, its main goal was for communication around organizations like universities. It wasn't designed for the entire world to use it. So this meant security was an afterthought. If the internet had been designed around security, we would see a lot fewer attacks. The internet is actually really poorly designed for what it is being used for now. But changing it would be an almost impossible feat because of how massively integrated it already is.

[@uniquechannelnames]

Just look up WannaCry and feast your eyes on what was essentially a nuclear bomb of a worm that went off only a few years ago and was disarmed (after causing a LOT of damage) literally only because a genius computer worker (named Marcus Hutchins) found a website in the code that activated a global killswitch, and thus shut down the worm globally. WannaCry basically collapsed the entire NHS healthcare system in Britain, it probably cause deaths because of that, and just... it just fucked up so many computers lol. The whole story from beginning to end is totally insane. WannaCry only came into existence because a group called ShadowBrokers, who are still unidentified but are probably nation-state backed hackers stole a bunch of top-level NSA hacking tools and tried to sell them online. When they couldn't sell them they released a bunch, one of them being "Eternal Blue", which was basically an automatic root-level hack into ANY Windows machine that ran Windows 7 and lower, and it was so easy to execute a 10 year old could do it. "Eternal Blue" was then transformed into the WannaCry worm which took Eternal Blue and made it travel computer to computer automatically (the definition of a worm), and was made into a ransomware hack (encrypts all your files and blackmails you into paying them to get your files back). This thing spread globally until Marcus Hutchins stopped it by finding a website in the code that when visited, acted as a global killswitch, stopping the worm worldwide. Then after being celebrated as a hero at the world's biggest hacker conference (DefCon in Vegas), Hutchins got arrested by the FBI over some code he'd written like 10 years earlier as a young teenager ( think he was literally like 14-15 years old). But it was bank hacking code, so not exactly light stuff. But the judge on the case basically threw the charges out and called Hutchins a complete and total legendary boss-ass mothafucka for quite literally saving the world, and that the whole world owed him a great debt, and that we needed more people like him in the world doing good. Like I said it's truly one of the craziest stories in history, let alone computer history.

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That thumbnail looks like that time I left a can of beans in the microwave for a week by accident.

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I love the switch from encouraging comments to this

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the way you cut that cake has unsettled me worse than any horror movie ever could. i am deeply & permanently scarred now.

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The editing and storytelling is captivating, as ever, but I really can't project enough how happy I am this video focused on one story

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That fake scrub was the most creative transition to an ad break I’ve ever seen

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It took me a while to realize that this is not a really juicy story (if you're not into computer stuff) But an amazing display of good production, audiovisual talent, editing and more

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the animation and production of this whole video is truly amazing, especially the 'Homeless Hacker Ad'. wow

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I have been researching malware for the significant part of my bachelor's and it's so amazing to watch these videos. I remember studying about Morris Worm so back!! The new gen malware are just as amazing!!

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Kind of crazy they think at the end of the day one line of code changed was originally intended to be a glorified measuring stick into essentially a loaded double barrel shotgun pointing at the entire internet by complete accident Hope he's doing alright because despite all that he did just want to measure the size of the internet not almost destroy it

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Robert Morris now has a PhD from Harvard and is a tenured professor at MIT. We learn about his worm in my secure programming class. It's very cool to see these videos garner broader interest regarding what I thought would be niche topics; really attests to this channel's storytelling and production quality

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this guy needs his own netflix show... quality over the roof, just insane, i am even looking forward to watching the sponsor part, still crazy quality

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I love that this channel is documenting these old viruses / worms. It's a trip down memory lane! Excellent quality, and such a pleasure to watch. I can't believe it took me so long to stumble upon this channel. Kudos, rock stars.

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11:31 Really made me think. I moved to a new city recently and it’s crazy to me that these people that I’m around now have been here the whole time and I never knew it.

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I love the product value of your videos. Though definitely have some technical inaccuracies. EG a virus replicates on the host worm replicates over the network, a Trojan requires human to execute.

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Great editing and storytelling as always, but... Deadliest?

[@CryptoTonight9393]

11:50 there is a word for that feeling or realization that each person has their own life story it's called sonder

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Who else immediately went down to the comments to see if Just_Some_Guy_Without_A_Mustache commented

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I really like your videos. I'd like to say that I prefer listening to them and the glitch sounds always have me going back to the computer, rewinding, and seeing what was said. Anyone else? Its just a tiny gripe but i recognize it's part of the creators style

[@p1nkfreud]

You have gotten so much wrong about computers in general (viruses/worms/trojans drill into motherboards?!) Also, Buffer overrun exploits are not triggered by repeated requests, but by overfilling a space that was designated to have a specific, pre-ordained size - and even then, they are far more difficult to pull off on modern operating systems…there was no social network of any type in those days, unless you count Usenet etc

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Really didn't like this editing style. A littke too hyper and relying on modern memes/pop culture. Mr Bean and Spongebob and Robot Chicken and anime? It plays out more like the opening to Malcolm In The Middle than to the ambient strange alternative atmosphere of real DisrupTV vid. takes me out of it. the other ones are dark but relaxing. this just feels too hyper and is too similar to all the other hyper-gif heavy youtubers. harder to focus on this one

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