Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

VIRUS DISSERTATION
While much attention has been paid to the malicious online attackers who exploit technology's vulnerabilities, little has been documented about the origins of the virus. Its early iterations were not created by malcontent teenagers or antisocial geeks but by campus researchers, system administrators and a handful of old-school hackers who thought that the ability to reproduce their programs automatically was a neat trick.
(C/NET NEWS, unearthed by Infopackets)