Title: The Cuckoo's Egg Pdf Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Author: Cliff Stoll
Published Date: 2005-09-13
Page: 399
"Fascinating...a nonfiction account that reads like a le Carré novel." -- The Seattle Times"Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer"The Cuckoo's Egg is 'reader friendly,' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping." -- Chicago Tribune"As exciting as any action novel....A gripping spy thriller." -- The New York Times Book Review When, to the delight of the baffled FBI, CIA, and NSA, Cliff Stoll nailed his spy, he wound up on the front page of The New York Times. The story, broken in 1989, quickly gathered headlines across the nation and Stoll became a genuine, if somewhat unlikely, American hero.An astronomer by training and a computer expert by accident, Cliff Stoll has become a leading authority on computer security, an issue recognized everywhere as among the most important security problems of our times. He has given talks for the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and has appeared before the U.S. Senate. Stoll is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
Government is doing better, but with our Washington politicians on their "lower ... Internet security is a major problem. This novel was written in 1989, and yet the U.S. Government agencies handling our personal information were to ignorant or in denial of the problem and refused to implement cyber security measures. Today, the U.S. Government is doing better, but with our Washington politicians on their "lower taxes no matter what" roll and under funding all agencies, huge leaks are a ticking time bomb with our personal information. Author Stoll leads us down the frustrating path of the early days of cyber theft and how he relentlessly pursued the attackers. I felt the ending was unsatisfactory, but that is because the real world is not Hollywood, and he was relating what happened in the real world.*Note: Just a few weeks ago in 2017 Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting bureaus in the U.S., allowed a back door to their data and over 141 million records were stolen, including mine. Think your personal information is safe online? As long as businesses and government politicians continue to deny problems and under fund data security none of our personal information is safe.Hackers provide a glimpse into the future. Author Cliff Stoll began writing this book in 1986. It was published in 1990. Stoll is an astronomer turned author that passion from his one-man sting operation progressed from a dangerous game of deception into a true spy thriller manuscript of 400 gripping pages.These days Stoll rebuilds mechanical calculators and occasionally teaches physics. His connection to hackers as a destiny is well expressed in these pages of computer espionage, mysterious protagonists, and dangerous elements of deception and military spying targets."Come into my parlor", said the spider to the fly. Are hackers perceived as spiders and vulnerable websites as potential prey? Read chapter 13 for some clarity.Chapter 14 defines the sophistication and Nordic mental challenges of many computer buffs and countless hackers. Author Stoll sees current events as "him against me".Umbriago.An excellent, and entertaining light read A great read. If you're a Unix sysadmin, like myself, you will recognize and emphathize with a lot of the concepts. If you've been doing sysadmin work for more than a decade, like myself, then you'll remember the old technologies as described in this book - the modems, the bulliten boards, the days before "ssh" ... If you're a new-school sysadmin, then you will be suprised to see a lot of things haven't changed in the world of Unix: telnet is still around, the "root" account is still around. The foundations of Unix were laid in the early 1970s. The events of this book took place in the 1980s. And many of the command line tools are still in use today.Anyway, a lot of sysadmins learn their trade because they are thrown into the fire without any prior experience, as happened to the author of this book, and it's entertaining to see him, a computer novice, teach himself what he needed to know to track down a hacker and to educate the U.S. military people in the process. I also found it interesting that, despite the fact that the author was basically a liberal, "anti-establishment", ex-hippie, he nonetheless felt such a sense of pride in his computer network that he was offended that a hacker should be in there mucking around, and this feeling of "ownership" and "responsibility" for his network spurred him on to try to catch the guy.If you don't know anything about computers, you'll enjoy the book because, not only does the author explain concepts in layman terms, but as others have pointed out the book itself reads like a spy novel of sorts, and there's also quite a bit of humor thrown in, so it's quite entertaining overall.
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