The Cuckoo’s Egg: Monitoring a Spy By the Maze of Pc Espionage

Earlier than the Web turned extensively referred to as a worldwide instrument for terrorists, one perceptive U.
S. citizen acknowledged its ominous potential. Armed with clear proof of pc espionage, he started a extremely private quest to show a hidden community of spies that threatened nationwide safety. However would the authorities again him up? Cliff Stoll’s dramatic firsthand account is “a computer-age detective story, immediately fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping” (Smithsonian).

Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned methods supervisor at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized consumer on his system. The hacker’s code identify was “Hunter” — a mysterious invader who managed to interrupt into U.S. pc methods and steal delicate army and safety info. Stoll started a one-man hunt of his personal: spying on the spy. It was a harmful sport of deception, damaged codes, satellites, and missile bases — a one-man sting operation that lastly gained the eye of the CIA…and in the end trapped a world spy ring fueled by money, cocaine, and the KGB.