The Cuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy Through a Maze of Computer Espionage - Hardcover

Stoll, Cliff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370314336 ISBN 13: 9780370314334

Publisher: The Bodley Head, London, 1990

Synopsis

A true tale of electronic skulduggery and detection in the world of computers. It tells of a year the author spent tracking down a hacker who was using his computer as a way station to gain access to dozens of other systems all over the US, including sensitive military and intelligence networks.

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Review

"Cosmopolitan"

Nothing short of fascinating...Even if you don't know a byte from a bagel, "The Cuckoo's Egg" will grip you on page one and hold you as ferociously as the best mystery...It's the intensely human, often funny voice of the man on the trail that makes this book so wonderful.

""The Cuckoo's Egg" is 'reader friendly, ' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping."
-- "Chicago Tribune"

"Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The Cuckoo's Egg is 'reader friendly, ' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping."
-- Chicago Tribune

"As exciting as any action novel....A gripping spy thriller."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating...a nonfiction account that reads like a le Carre novel."
-- The Seattle Times

-Fascinating...a nonfiction account that reads like a le Carre novel.-
-- The Seattle Times

-Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing.-
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

-The Cuckoo's Egg is 'reader friendly, ' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping.-
-- Chicago Tribune

-As exciting as any action novel....A gripping spy thriller.-
-- The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

When, to the delight of the baffled FBI, CIA, and NSA, Cliff Stoll nailed his spy, he wound up on the front page of The New York Times. The story, broken in 1989, quickly gathered headlines across the nation and Stoll became a genuine, if somewhat unlikely, American hero.

An astronomer by training and a computer expert by accident, Cliff Stoll has become a leading authority on computer security, an issue recognized everywhere as among the most important security problems of our times. He has given talks for the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and has appeared before the U.S. Senate. Stoll is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Bodley Head, London
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0370314336
• ISBN 13: 9780370314334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 326