alt Hacker NewsI find it funny that:
1) He released it from MIT to avoid suspicion.
2) After he was convicted, he went from Cornell to Harvard to complete his Ph.D.
3) He became an assistant professor at MIT after that.
He had to be really spectacular/have crazy connections to still be able to finish his training at a top program and get a job at the institution he tried to frame.
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One of my favourite quiet jokes is the "Editorial Board" list for The Annals of Improbable Research¹ where RTM is listed under Computer Science. Asterisks after each name denote qualifications, RTM's being "Convicted Felon"
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¹Awarders of the Ig Nobel prize
You know his dad ran research at the NSA right?
His dad's also a badass and super fun to talk to. Never talked to the son though, but I'd love to some day.
> tried to frame.
MIT really respects good hacks and good hackers. It was probably more effective than sending in some PDF of a paper.
His dad was Bob Morris. Unless that's the joke you're making.
Bob Morris wrote crypt(1), dc(1), crypt(3), libm, co-wrote the rainbow series, and did additional unknown work as a cryptographer for the NSA.
dmr writes about working with Bob Morris here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250121041734/https://www.bell-...