The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Cliff Stoll
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Release: 2005-09-13
Pages: 416 (Paperback)
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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.
Other Formats:
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Pocket - 2000-10-01
416 pages (Paperback)
Pocket - 2000-10-01
416 pages (Paperback)
