Talk:Robert Tappan Morris/Archives/2019

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Morris worm

I've removed the statement "He said it was designed to gauge the size of the Internet." because it's not in any of the cited sources.

It is in many other sources I can find, but they all postdate the appearance of this phrase on the Wikipedia page for The Morris Worm (which has since been removed), and many of them reference Wikipedia explicitly.

Most notably, neither the well-sourced Washington Post article nor the case notes from the court of appeals (both referenced by this page) mention anything about gauging the size of the internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fool on the hill (talk • contribs) 23:07, 4 January 2019 (UTC)