User blog comment:D. Cello/Animus Hardware code decyphered/@comment-3349505-20110616025828/@comment-4036348-20110616171857

It could be possible if subject 16 memories were stored in the animus. After all, he did hack into it, thus he may of placed his own memories into the memories of Ezio and Altier (SC), thus letting Dezmond access his memories