Every day, "Le Figaro" looks back on a resounding hacking carried out against a large company or an institution.
Glenn Adams had never seen this. In the twilight of his lab at MIT, the prestigious institute of technology located a stone's throw from Boston, it is as if all the computers were packed. Yet Adams is not the type to be easily impressed. He is a researcher in artificial intelligence and above all responsible for the Prep, the main computer of the institution on which students connect to work and access their files. And on that day, November 2, 1988, at 8 p.m., something was wrong. Machines are subjected to an unusual, phenomenal workload that threatens to cripple them. Glued to his keyboard, the researcher tries to examine what is wrong. By displaying the list of running processes, it discovers hundreds of identical programs which monopolize all the resources
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