Cuckoos Egg
Cuckoos Egg Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a…
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Cuckoos Egg
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. citizen recognized its ominous potential.
Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" (Smithsonian).Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. But would the authorities back him up? The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S.
computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a