Joe died near Oneonta, Oswego, New York. His undergraduate degree was in Biology with honors, his PHD was from Harvard University in primatology and evolutionary biology. He is the author of at least 3 books and he was writing a memoir about his adventures in Africa at the time of his death.
Joseph L. Popp Jr. was a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist and is credited as the inventor of computer ransomware. He created and distributed the "Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan" in 1989. Popp mailed 20,000 floppy diskettes with the ransomware to addresses all over the world obtained from a mailing list.
From Wikipedia:
"AIDS was introduced into systems through a floppy disk called the "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", which had been mailed to a mailing list. Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Popp, was identified as the author of the AIDS trojan horse and was a subscriber to this list.
Popp was eventually discovered by the British anti-virus industry and named on a New Scotland Yard arrest warrant. He was detained in Brixton Prison. Though charged with eleven counts of blackmail and clearly tied to the AIDS trojan, Popp defended himself by saying money going to the PC Cyborg Corporation was to go to AIDS research. A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year. [1] Popp had been behaving erratically since the day of his arrest during a routine baggage inspection at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. He was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was returned to the United States."
Joseph L. Popp Jr. was a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist and is credited as the inventor of computer ransomware. He created and distributed the "Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan" in 1989. Popp mailed 20,000 floppy diskettes with the ransomware to addresses all over the world obtained from a mailing list.
From Wikipedia:
"AIDS was introduced into systems through a floppy disk called the "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", which had been mailed to a mailing list. Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Popp, was identified as the author of the AIDS trojan horse and was a subscriber to this list.
Popp was eventually discovered by the British anti-virus industry and named on a New Scotland Yard arrest warrant. He was detained in Brixton Prison. Though charged with eleven counts of blackmail and clearly tied to the AIDS trojan, Popp defended himself by saying money going to the PC Cyborg Corporation was to go to AIDS research. A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year. [1] Popp had been behaving erratically since the day of his arrest during a routine baggage inspection at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. He was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was returned to the United States."
Joe died near Oneonta, Oswego, New York. His undergraduate degree was in Biology with honors, his PHD was from Harvard University in primatology and evolutionary biology. He is the author of at least 3 books and he was writing a memoir about his adventures in Africa at the time of his death.
Joseph L. Popp Jr. was a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist and is credited as the inventor of computer ransomware. He created and distributed the "Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan" in 1989. Popp mailed 20,000 floppy diskettes with the ransomware to addresses all over the world obtained from a mailing list.
From Wikipedia:
"AIDS was introduced into systems through a floppy disk called the "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", which had been mailed to a mailing list. Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Popp, was identified as the author of the AIDS trojan horse and was a subscriber to this list.
Popp was eventually discovered by the British anti-virus industry and named on a New Scotland Yard arrest warrant. He was detained in Brixton Prison. Though charged with eleven counts of blackmail and clearly tied to the AIDS trojan, Popp defended himself by saying money going to the PC Cyborg Corporation was to go to AIDS research. A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year. [1] Popp had been behaving erratically since the day of his arrest during a routine baggage inspection at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. He was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was returned to the United States."
Joseph L. Popp Jr. was a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist and is credited as the inventor of computer ransomware. He created and distributed the "Aids Info Disk/PC Cyborg Trojan" in 1989. Popp mailed 20,000 floppy diskettes with the ransomware to addresses all over the world obtained from a mailing list.
From Wikipedia:
"AIDS was introduced into systems through a floppy disk called the "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", which had been mailed to a mailing list. Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Popp, was identified as the author of the AIDS trojan horse and was a subscriber to this list.
Popp was eventually discovered by the British anti-virus industry and named on a New Scotland Yard arrest warrant. He was detained in Brixton Prison. Though charged with eleven counts of blackmail and clearly tied to the AIDS trojan, Popp defended himself by saying money going to the PC Cyborg Corporation was to go to AIDS research. A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year. [1] Popp had been behaving erratically since the day of his arrest during a routine baggage inspection at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. He was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was returned to the United States."
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