"A couple of times in my life, I wrote something that could be a virus, that could have spread itself on Macintosh computers forever, and each time, I threw away every bit of code I'd written, I was so scared inside," Wozniak said. "You do not want to let something like that out."
Wozniak's colorful story about his misadventures in malware development came out during a segment discussing the legal battle between the FBI and Apple over unlocking an iPhone one of the San Bernardino shooters used. Wozniak claimed during the Conan spot the FBI had picked "the lamest case you ever could."
"With court orders and whatnot, I think that Apple would respond," Wozniak said in an interview on CNBC last month. "But this case is more like, 'Should you build in a backdoor you can always find out what someone has,' then they can not have a realm of privacy, and I'm on privacy's side."