The cuckoo's egg : tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage / Cliff Stoll. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pocket Books, (c)2005.Description: 399 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781416507789
- UB271.S875.C835 2005
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"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
This is the true story of how a systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab singlehandedly tracked down and helped capture a computer hacker who had been breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. 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 --
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