Re: incidents from history

[Jason Chambers <jchambers () ucla edu>]

Flavio Silva wrote:
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm.


As far as "greatest" reported incidents go, I regard this event to be
high caliber:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004-2005

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5280


As well as this report:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-509186/CIA-launches-hunt-international-hackers-threatening-hold-cities-ransom-shutting-power.html


--Jason

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