Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage - Softcover

Stoll, Cliff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671726889 ISBN 13: 9780671726881

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1990

Synopsis

Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy-- and plunging into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counter-intelligence agents. "The Cuckoo's Egg" is his wild and suspenseful true story-- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases and the ultimate sting operation-- and how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.

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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

Cliff Stoll 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 the 1990's. He has given talks for the FBI, CIA and NSA, and has appeared before the U.S. Senate. Stoll, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics, lives in Cambridge with two cats that he pretends to dislike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671726889
• ISBN 13: 9780671726881
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 356