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| The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | 
| Author: Cliff Stoll
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (156 reviews)
Sales Rank: 19154
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416507787
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9781416507789
ASIN: 1416507787
Publication Date: September 13, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just a straight up GREAT book... January 11, 2008
This book was VERY well written considering it was a reconstruction of a log book....that sounds kind of cheezy but it was an awesome book. Each chapter keeps you digging deeper into how this guy did what he did to catch the hack. Half way through the book it seems like it's over and he has the guy, but a few twists, turns, a visit to NSA and CIA, and your still waiting for the guy to be caught. EXCELLENT play by play, great humor (tire factory in a microwave, HA HA), and all around closure on the last page. 100% recommendation.
Great book! January 2, 2008
The Cuckoo's egg was really a great book to read. It was thrilling and it gave you an insider's look of how computers work, operated and...broke, 40 years ago. Must read for any CS or computer ethusiast :)
Outstanding Book October 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first read this book as one of the texts that were reviewed during an undergraduate computer security course. I found the book to be entertaining and informative. You won't be a better equipped computer security professional by reading this book; however, I think you will be better for it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I still recommend this book to people I talk to that are interested in an introduction to computer security.
My wife also read the book. She knows nothing about computer networking or security, yet she found it to be a great story and was able to follow the storyline pretty easily.
 75c doesn't seem much but..... August 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although the event occured some 20 years ago the story is as relevant today as ever. Stoll relates his story well; how an afternoon spent tying up a 75c accounting error in the labs logging software leads him to suspect, and ultimately help catch, a hacker on the KGB payroll. The book is of particular interest to readers in the computing/info technology fields but any reader will find the story interesting. Stoll devotes much of his working day monitoring/logging the hacker's activities, putting aside his regular work. Following the hacker's trail reveals to Stoll how insecure the main US military computer networks are and how easy it is to access sensitive documents. The documents themselves might not be of a classified nature but when they information they contain is combined it provides a major insight in to the activities of the US military. On the way Stoll informs the various US agencies: CIA, NSA, FBI etc. about the hacker to hopefully gain their assistamce. Interesting insight is provided on the internal machinations of the agencies and their seeming reluctance to help. Stoll continues on regardless, tracking the hacker across the US to the European continent. Eventually the govt steps in as they get wind of espionage on a grand scale. The vast majority of the book focuses on Stoll's personal efforts with fairly scant coverage of the international efforts being carried out by the CIA etc. This is a result of Stoll only being able to extract a small amount of info from the CIA about the case. In a way it would have been interesting to have read more about the CIA/KGB end of things but that certainly doesn't detract from the appeal of Stoll's accounts. Well written and recommended.
A World of Acronyms July 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only a great story about tracking a Cracker. It is packed with the basics of computer science. If you are interested in computers at all or would like to know a little bit more about how my mind works, pick up this book. It will fullfill your needs for acronyms and problem solving. It will have you captivated to find out the answers to problems still plaqueing our computer systems. I will enjoy re-reading this book to see how my profession has evolved.
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