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Great Worm
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM. This is a play on Tolkien
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(compare elvish , elder days ). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth
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books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions;
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two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as the Great Worms. This usage
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expresses the connotation that the RTM crack was a sort of devastating
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watershed event in hacker history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers
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nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
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