Beyond the Morris Worm: How we became hostages to our own code
In February 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower established ARPA (later DARPA): the American strategic commitment to compete in technological development with the Soviet Union, which had launched the Sputnik 1 satellite in October 1957. For the first time, the conceptual framework for a network of interconnected computers—operating independently of direct human intervention—was proposed under the moniker…
José Ramón González