Chris Pile (programmer)
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Chris Pile (programmer)
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Christopher Pile is a programmer who was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 1995 for creating and spreading two computer viruses called Pathogen and Queeg. While Pile was not the first person convicted for creating and spreading computer viruses, his case was the first "widely covered and published computer crime case that ended in a jail sentence" as well as the first such case to be prosecuted in England and Wales. In addition to the two viruses, he also created Smeg, a software tool that he us
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British computer programmer
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2023-12-07T22:55:35Z
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