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The Cuckoo's Egg
- Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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The Cuckoo's Egg
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Publisher's Summary
Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" - Smithsonian.
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 user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" - a mysterious invader who managed to break into US computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases - a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
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- Tom S
- 04-05-2020
Great story
It's a story that draws you in so you struggle to stop listening. Well written and appropriateness paced, and with excellent performance.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-05-2024
Old but good
Setting is late 80s computing, but the author does a good job of fleshing out characters, giving them personality, and taking something fairly dry topic-wise and keeping you interested.
Very good reading for junior systems people in explaining methodical working. As the systems are old (simpler) it makes things easier to follow.
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- Joanne
- 14-07-2021
Very Interesting
I enjoyed this book and thought the narrator did a good job. Interesting just how much work goes into trying to deal with a problem like this and how vulnerable today's computers still are.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-05-2024
So familiar, yet so riveting!
In recent years I have been doing my own observations through lbl and their security was always annoyingly pedantic! Ha! Now I know why! What a great story!
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-2023
Good but old
good book expected newer but this ones from 1980's
I still gave it 5 starZ
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- Nick
- 27-02-2020
Just a great story
It may be old, but the characters are lovable and the author tells a great story. It still has relevance today as most of the agencies have not changed.
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- Varun Pant
- 16-06-2024
Gripping early day cybercrime and catching a cracker
The suspense, and the relatablity to the time when I was a young boy...
This book has it all... The early day computers and networks were never built for security, and often had known bugs that could be easily sand readily exploited.
How a small imbalance of 75 cents led the author on a multi continent pursuit of a cracker, and how the uninterested three letter agencies reacted to the same...
Without spoiling the fun, it was a great listen.
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