An edition of The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (1989)

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An edition of The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (1989)

The cuckoo's egg

tracking a spy through a maze of computer espionage

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (20 ratings)
  • 183 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 28 Have read

In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to be freestanding units that could not easily communicate with another system), accounts to use the computer were expensive to maintain and heavily scrutinized by management. When the Accounting staff of Stoll's university employer discovered 75 cents' worth of time used with which no user was associated, they called him and demanded that he locate the "phantom" user. Stoll wasn't even a computing pro - he was an astronomer that used the computer to run programs that pointed telescopes properly. But he was a member of a club that exists today - that person elected to do network administration because he drew the short straw. Stoll tells the ensuing circa 1985 tale of analysis when people worldwide were only just discovering what networks could reveal... and hide. Rather like today.

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Bodley Head, The Bodley Head Ltd
Language
English
Pages
326

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Subjects

Soviet Espionage, Computer crimes, Classified Defense information, Databases, Bases de datos, Espionaje ruso, Información clasificada (Defensa de la nación), Computadoras, Control de acceso, Crimes par ordinateur, Espionnage soviétique, Secret-défense, Bases de données, Bases de dato, Informaciâon clasificada (Defensa de la naciâon), Computerkriminalita t, Erlebnisbericht, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Espionage, soviet, Defense information, classified, It-säkerhet, Dataskydd, Spionage, Espionage, russian, Internet, security measures, Computers, Hannover

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Markus Hess, Clifford Stoll

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United States, Hannover, Germany, Germany (West), Alemania (República Federal, 1949 1990, Alemania (República Federal, 1949 1990), Allemagne, États-Unis, Hanovre, EE. UU

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1990, Bodley Head, The Bodley Head Ltd
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November 1, 1990, Pocket, Pocket Books
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The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
1989, Doubleday
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Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
UB271 .R92 H477 1989

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Pagination
vi,326p.
Number of pages
326

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OL22425430M
ISBN 10
0370314336
OCLC/WorldCat
857348741
LibraryThing
69135
Goodreads
1206068

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OL3741565W

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