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Paul Graham on X: "FWIW the Wikipedia article on the worm is mistaken. It wasn't written to "highlight security flaws," but simply to see if it could be done. If it had worked as intended, it would have been barely noticeable, which is a bad way to "highlight" something."

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FWIW the Wikipedia article on the worm is mistaken. It wasn't written to "highlight security flaws," but simply to see if it could be done. If it had worked as intended, it would have been barely noticeable, which is a bad way to "highlight" something.
12:52 PM · Nov 2, 2020·
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  • @paulg
    Paul Graham
    @paulg
    FWIW the Wikipedia article on the worm is mistaken. It wasn't written to "highlight security flaws," but simply to see if it could be done. If it had worked as intended, it would have been barely noticeable, which is a bad way to "highlight" something.
    12:52 PM · Nov 2, 2020·
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    Nov 2, 2020
    I don't know what you mean, the Wikipedia article gets this exactly right :) en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…
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