Oct 15, 2023
It's finally Spook Month here on
Advent of Computing! To kick things off I'm tackling a bit of a
mystery. Between 1972 and 1982 there is only one well documented
virus. This period is book ended with plenty of sources and, yes,
even viruses. But this decade long span of time has almost nothing!
Was this era truly safe from the grips of malicious code? Or is
there a secret history lurking just beneath the
surface?
Selected
Sources:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358453.358455
- Worms at
Xerox PARC!
https://archive.org/details/crimebycomputer0000park
- Crime by
Computer
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/page/n89/mode/2up
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Programming Pastimes and Pleasures
