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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage |  | Author: Cliff Stoll
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 116084
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416507787
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9781416507789
ASIN: 1416507787
Publication Date: September 13, 2005
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A sentimental favorite, The Cuckoo's Egg seems to have inspired a whole category of books exploring the quest to capture computer criminals. Still, even several years after its initial publication and after much imitation, the book remains a good read with an engaging story line and a critical outlook, as Clifford Stoll becomes, almost unwillingly, a one-man security force trying to track down faceless criminals who've invaded the university computer lab he stewards. What first appears as a 75-cent accounting error in a computer log is eventually revealed to be a ring of industrial espionage, primarily thanks to Stoll's persistence and intellectual tenacity.
Product Description
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? 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. 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 dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
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 Fiction for geeks October 21, 2009
B. Huygens (Gent, Belgium)
Cliff Stoll is a astrologer at the University of Berkeley but discovered accidentally (by a stupid financial irregularity of 75 cents) an unauthorized user on their computer. From then goes on a cat and mouse game, between Cliff and the hacker.
The commands (telnet, whois ...) in this book were something magical i wanted to know everything about.
At that time I was already crazy and keenly interested in computers and networks but the Internet still was something far away (at least for me). With a little luck I could connect to some BBS (Bulletin Board System) using Gopher and we were suddenly in distant America. Waauw
Cliff Stoll was my childhood idol and I knew then that I really wanted to do something similar!
Interesting but not well-written September 23, 2009
M. Godon
That book is a nerd test - if you've heard of it, you're probably a big nerd. I can say that because I'm a big nerd. Cliff Stoll was a physicist working at Lawrence Berkeley Labs as a sys admin when he accidentally fell into counterterrorism research. Stoll is not an excellent writer, but he did a great job of tracking a hacker when that sort of thing just wasn't a big concern for law enforcement, and his documentation of the whole thing as it went along was probably the only thing that got the guy caught and prosecuted. Recommended if you're a big nerd like me; not recommended if you're not.
 Could Not Have Been Easier September 14, 2009
Teka Mccown (Foster, Ohio)
I ordered the book on a Monday (pm) and was surprised to receive the book only four days later. Great job!
Primer for Network Security July 3, 2009
TheShadow (Long Beach, CA)
This book is the true account of Eric Stoll tracking down a simple accounting error. The minor accounting discrepancy, led to various other discrepancies. This in turn led Eric Stoll to a wide variety of security issues. This book covers the trials and tribulations that Eric Stoll encountered during that time in his life. His experiences during this course of events led to Eric Stoll becoming one of the foremost Network Security EXPERTS in the World.
Has not aged a bit June 15, 2009
John S. Diamond (Chicago, IL USA)
One would think that with the advances of the Internet and Computer Security over the last 20 years that this book would begin to show its age. It certainly does not. This book is addictive.
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