Cuckoo's
Egg : Tracking a Spy Through The Maze of Computer
Espionage
Clifford
Stoll was an astronomer at Lawrence Berkeley when he was
given an assignment to track down the source of a 75 cent
accounting error on the University's computer
system. Upon finding that the source of the error
was caused by an unauthorized user, Stoll embarked on a
months long search to identify the attacker. Along
the way Stoll's detailed notes on the events show how the
attacker utilized weaknesses in systems to jump from
network to network taking over computing systems around
the world.
While
a true story with accurate technical accounts and detail,
the delivery makes this one read like a detective thriller
of the highest caliber.
For
those that don't already know the history of this well
documented account I won't spoil the ending by telling you
whodunit.
Just
read it for yourself, I promise you won't be disappointed.
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