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A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Private university in Ithaca, New York, US
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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
1986 United States cybersecurity law
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