The Cuckoo’s Egg

Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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The Cuckoo’s Egg

Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

  • 4.0 (19 ratings) ·
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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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Publisher
Pocket, Pocket Books
Language
English
Pages
399

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Cover of: The Cuckoo’s Egg
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
September 13, 2005, Pocket, Pocket Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Cuckoo's Egg
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
October 3, 2000, Pocket
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Kuckucksei
Kuckucksei
January 1, 1998, Fischer
Paperback in German
Cover of: Cuckoo's Egg
Cuckoo's Egg
November 1, 1990, Pocket, Pocket Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Cuckoo’s Egg
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
1989, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"ME, A WIZARD? UNTIL A WEEK AGO, I WAS AN ASTRONomer, contentedly designing telescope optics."

Classifications

Library of Congress
UB271.R92 H477 2005

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
399
Dimensions
8 x 1.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8456717M
Internet Archive
cuckooseggtracki00stol_659
ISBN 10
1416507787
ISBN 13
9781416507789
LCCN
2017416932
OCLC/WorldCat
61690806
Library Thing
69135
Goodreads
18154

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