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rtm’s worm is mentioned in ‘The Cuckoo’s Egg’ by Cliff Stoll as well. While Cliff was working with rtm’s dad, cryptographer Robert H. Morris, to solve his hacker case, rtm released the worm.

His dad was Chief Scientist of the NSA National Computer Security Center at the time :)




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