Stoll, Clifford,

The cuckoo's egg : tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage / Clifford Stoll. - 393 pages ; 20 cm

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references.

Spy story. Clifford Stoll had just started work running a huge central computer at a Berkeley lab when he was given the job of figuring out why the carefully kept user accounts were out by 75 cents. From this tiny beginning began a hunt for a mysterious hacker who was using the Californian computer as an electronic way station to infiltrate dozens of other systems -- including the most sensitive military, scientific and intelligence networks in America.

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Hess, Markus.
Stoll, Clifford.


Computer crimes--United States
Computer crimes--Germany--Hannover
Espionage, Soviet--United States
Espionage, Soviet--Germany--Hannover
Defense information, Classified--Databases.--United States

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