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Aiken Computational Laboratories programmer Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and computer science graduate student Paul Graham are the only people Morris called when the virus began to spread on the morning of November 3, and the two are expected to describe those conversations in detail...
Shortly after the incident, media accountsreported that Morris was responsible for creatingthe virus, which spread out of control across anational computer network linking institutionssuch as Harvard and the Defense Department.Experts have marvelled at Morris' ingenuity, andhis friends--primarily Sudduth and Graham--havesaid the act was an accident. Morris himselfseemed nervously to await legal judgment for hismistake...
...Sudduth and Graham have told reporters thatMorris called Aiken labs twice shortly after thevirus appeared: first to announce that the rogueprogram was on its way, and two hours later,distraught, to ask Sudduth to broadcast anationwide computer message that the virus wasspreading out of control. In the second call,Morris gave Sudduth a solution to the program andasked him to broadcast it as well...
...Sudduth yesterday recalled coming into Aikenand finding the lab cluttered with puzzles thecomputer had generated. "He sat down and did it ona whim," Sudduth said...
...Even before this, RTM could have gotten a jobanywhere he wanted. The references are fantastic,"said Graham. Sudduth said the virus might have anadverse effect on his career, adding "he'sdefinitely hurt himself...