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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Written by Cliff Stoll
Narrated by Will Damron
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About this audiobook
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"-Smithsonian.
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five 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 US 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.
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five 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 US 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow, I could not stop until I finished. Great information.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Exciting from beginning to end! I highly recommend this book!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How big corporations ( in the early age of modern computing) ignorance on cyber security allowed cyber criminals to penetrate and steal highly classified information without even noticing .
Crime doesn’t pay but it surely gets highly rewarded when gets away with classified information.
Love this book , and how one guy with a little computer knowledge, single handed uncovered a ring of cyber criminals, with the FBI hesitation of course, helped him to finally uncovered the elusive Ring of early internet Hackers.