Everyone should read the book! (The Cuckoo’s Egg) - it’s really awesome.
The Cuckoo's Egg was formative in my youth. Great book.
IIRC I randomly picked it out from the local Borders too (realize I'm dating myself with that one) so that's some real "Dalai Lama reincarnation" stuff going on there. Like it was fated...
I honestly think that was an excellent idea - there’s a good amount of valuable lessons for an analyst to glean from reading it.
I can think of very few other books in the IT security field that are as well written and as compelling besides maybe Silence on the Wire, The Tangled Web, or Innocent Code.
So Bob Morris's son froze two thousand computers. Why? To impress his dad? As a Halloween prank? To show off to a couple thousand computer programmers?
Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in cahoots with his father. Rumours have it that he worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris Sr, said, "This isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."