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 mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy -- and plunged into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counterintelligence agents. The Cuckoo's Egg is his wild and suspenseful true story -- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases, and the ultimate sting operation -- and how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
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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.
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Astrophysicist Stoll's pursuit of a hacker trying to access American computer networks led to the discovery of a West German spy ring. "A quest that reads with the tension and excitement of a fictional thriller," asserted PW . "Although best appreciated by the computer literate, even illiterates should be able to follow the technical complexities with little difficulty."
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Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I read this book after a recommendation from the friend of a friend. She heard my vocational story and thought I would like it. She was correct. One of the neat things that happened when reading this book was that I was attending LinuxCon 2012 in San Diego and had a chance to meet Ted Ts'o - a Google employee and Linux Kernel Developer. The same day that I met Mr. Ts'o I read his name in the final pages of this book. I could not believe it! I had never heard of or met Ted Ts'o before this and yet in one day I saw him on stage as part of a panel discussion, was introduced to him, and then read his name in a book I was reading for pleasure and which was never supposed to be pertinent to the work I was reading about and researching. An amazing coincidence or not?
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Very good read. Very interesting.
Can get a little slow at some parts. But that was what I was expecting.
Can get a little slow at some parts. But that was what I was expecting.
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The book is a great blend of spy story, technical expose and biography. While the technical details and technologies used are no longer current, the flavor, style and concerns are still very relavent and perhaps more accessible than the most up-to-date versions of the same stuff. As well, for middle aged technical people there is a great element of technical and social nostalgia that will be evoked. All in all, this was a joy to read. On top of all that, the author is quite an interesting character.
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The Case of the Hannover Hacker
This tells of Cliff Stoll's involvement in reconciling a 75 cent bookkeeping discrepancy that led to an intruder who broke into the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in order to break... Read more
Published on July 19 2004 by Acute Observer
4.0 out of 5 stars
An enjoyable surprise.
I bought this book at the suggestion of a friend. I did not really expect it to be entertaining since most books on the subject are tough to get through. Read more
Published on Jun 29 2004 by D. Lomax
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Stoll hatches a good story
Here's a great nerd's-eye view of Cliff Stoll's practically one-man stand to capture a 'Cracker' (aka a Malicious Hacker for the non-geeks). Read more
Published on May 9 2004 by Peter Isaacson
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Hacker's Classic
This is a classic book about real life network hacking.
The book reads like a detective story, and all the details are real life happenings of a grad student from Berkeley and... Read more
Published on May 1 2004 by Gabriel E. Borlean
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent read for tech and non-tech alike
I bought this book almost 6 years ago, and I still read it today. Then, I knew very little about UNIX, but I still enjoyed the book. Read more
Published on Mar 29 2004 by Adam Hartling
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Absorbing!
Even to non-computer wise peoples The Cuckoo's Egg is a delightful read the explores the reality of computer hackers and the vulnerability of systems to new age hackers. Read more
Published on Feb 21 2004 by Sky
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A classic
A well-written and thoroughly engaging account. Although this book will be most interesting to computer geeks, it is written to be accessible to all readers - technical jargon is... Read more
Published on Dec 31 2003 by Travis Miller
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Great suspense
I couldn't put this book down. I love it when real life surpasses fictional imagination. The story of Mr. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2003 by tzefirah
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I read this book the week it was released.
I knew Cliff (by e-mail) from computer security work I was involved in at the time with the Fed...I was 18 at the time. Read more
Published on Oct 17 2003 by Eric E. Rinderer
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ton of historical info and several current security concepts
I loved reading about the mid-80s computing environment. I've been in infosec (Unix/IDS and networking) for a few years now but the world in which Stoll operated was vastly... Read more
Published on Oct 13 2003 by Keith Tokash
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