Needed : i ary tsar itzvahs and Computer Confir actons? The recent sentencing of Robert Tappan Morris for what amounts to reckless computing, prompts the question of what our society needs to do to develop a sense of responsibility among its young computer programmers . Morris, the scion of a professional family, was raised with serious attention to his moral development. His father, Robert Morris, the chief scientist for the National Security Agency's National Computer Security Center, moved the family to a farm, in part, he told the press, to teach his children responsibility : "When you're a little kid and your assignment is to go out and feed the pigs or rabbits or pick up the eggs in the henhouse, it's a different environment," he explained. "What does that responsibility do for anybody? It presents a different view toward life." His efforts do not seem to have been enough where his son was concerned . Robert Tappan Morris released an untested program into a widely dispersed and heavily used set of computer communication networks called Internet. The program interfered with between 3,000 to 6,000 computers . According to a report by Cornell University, "he was so focused
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Needed: binary Bar mitzvahs and computer confirmations?
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