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The Cuckoo's Egg (Paperback)
by Cliff Stoll (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (12 April 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330317423
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330317429
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 258,405 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Clifford Stoll was running a central computer at a Berkeley lab, and was asked to trace a 75 cent error in the user accounts. This began a hunt for a hacker who was infiltrating sensitive American networks. This is the story of how Stoll exposed an international spy ring selling secrets to the KGB.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cliiford stoll -cuckoos egg, 28 Mar 2004
By Paul Blute (Brora, Sutherland United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I have just purchased this book s/hand on amazon uk, although I have read it several times. Stolle paints a wonderful picture of the laid back California lifestyle at berkley while gripping your interest with factual computer exploits and his attempts to get someone in authority to take notice of his discovery and help him catch the hackers.
This book is one you simply cant put down stolles easy way of writing makes you feel you are with him, wether he is cycling down the hill near the particle accelerators, camping out amongst the wires of the network waiting for the hacket to set off his pager or watching a free grateful dead concert. If you like computer hacking,security stories, computer history and the california lifestyle , get this book.
Also take a look at hackers by steven levy - the hackers refers not to the script kiddies of latter days, but the pioneers at MIT, messing aro0und with pdp,s or the california startups like apples jobs and wozniak and the software pioneers of the late 70s early 80s
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5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, 27 Oct 1999
By danny_brierley@yahoo.co.uk (Manchester England) - See all my reviews
Go on have an impulse purchase you wont regret it .I cant remember the last time a book hooked me as well as this one did.The way an inocent astronomer became the key to the solving of a international espionage ring sounds like far fetched fiction.BUT THIS ONE IS TRUE. the recepie for the milkshakes is a good one to
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, 6 Jun 1999
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I bought this book from a second hand shop yesterday morning and couldn't put it down until I'd read it all - by 6pm last night! Has just gone to the top of my recommended books list. The detailed technical details really opened my eyes to the security issue and although thing