The Cuckoo's Egg

A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true

story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's

Lawrence Berkeley Lab. A 75-cent accounting error alerted

him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on

his system. The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking

into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and

security information. Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in

cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.

["The Cuckoo's Egg", Clifford Stoll, London: Bodley Head,

1990, ISBN 0-370-31433-6, ISBN 0-671-72688-9].

[FTP?]

(1994-11-15)