Zero Day

From a curious graduate student’s worm to nation-state armies wielding weaponized code - the complete history of how the internet became a battlefield.

In 1988, a Cornell student released a self-replicating program that crashed 10% of the internet. It was primitive, accidental, and quaint by modern standards. It was also the first shot in a war that has never stopped escalating.

In the decades since, cyber conflict has evolved from teenage curiosity to organiz…