Claim

Samy worm DEVELOPED_BY Samy Kamkar

Samy says he wrote the virus that became the MySpace worm; Jack identifies it as the Samy worm.

Episode
EP 61 — Samy
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Samy Kamkar
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“I realize oops, I just wrote a virus.”

Samy Kamkar · offsets 19815–19852

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:20:27.641631+00:00

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