A small tag-on piece was written in the Interface supplement of the
Times newspaper (page 4, 21 Oct 1998). It reads ..'.spare a thought
for Aaron Blosser. He was a US West telecommunications contractor who
programmed his bosses' 2,500 computers to search for million digit
prime numbers as part of an Internet project.
'As a result, says company spokesman David Beigie, US West's
databases were slowed to a quarter of their usual speed. Blosser
could now face a prison sentence.'
