A young man leaves a laptop under a cardboard box in a wiring closet at MIT, fetching journal articles, and the United States charges him with thirteen felonies. A program written by nobody who will admit to it reaches an enrichment plant in Iran, and Sergey Ulasen in Minsk, Liam O'Murchu in California and Ralph Langner in Hamburg take it apart to find out what it was for, and what it told the operators while it worked. Two stories about what code is permitted to do.
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- In this chapter
- Aaron Swartz, Carl Malamud, Carmen Ortiz, Stephen Heymann, Hal Abelson, Sergey Ulasen, Liam O'Murchu, Eric Chien, Ralph Langner
- The idea it builds
- How a worm wrecked centrifuges: change the motor speeds a little, rarely, and replay a recording of normal readings to the control room.