This reminded me of the ILOVEYOU virus, and I had never read about its origins
Background
The ILOVEYOU worm was coded by Onel de Guzman, then a student at AMA Computer College of the Philippines. At the time of its creation, de Guzman was poor and struggling to pay for the country's dial-up internet access.[5] De Guzman believed that internet access was a human right,[5] and submitted an undergraduate thesis to the college which proposed the development of a trojan to steal internet login details.[7] He claimed that this would allow users to be able to afford an internet connection, arguing that those affected by the it would experience no loss.[5] The proposal was rejected by the college, which remarked that his proposal was "illegal" and that "they did not produce burglars".[7] This led de Guzman to claim that his professors were closed-minded,[4] and he ultimately dropped out of the college and began development of the worm.[8]
Dude was an actual Batman villain, good for him
