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Is he really the same Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage? It is one of my all time favorite books. I

by p4bl0 10y ago

Is he really the same Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage? It is one of my all time favorite books. I really recommend it if you haven't read it already. I didn't know Cliff Stoll also made other awesome stuff. He really seems to be an amazing person.

doomlaser 10y ago
One of my favorite things about reading that book as a kid was typing one of the IP addresses for the White Sands missile range computers into telnet and getting a Unix login prompt.
M_Grey 10y ago
It's really him? I loved that book as a kid! It was the first book I read that opened my eyes to the world of system administration, intrusion, etc. It's one of a handful of books that I still have on the shelf and loan out to the kids of any family friends.
JshWright 10y ago
Yep, that's him. I have often said that someday I want to be as passionate about something as Cliff Stoll is about everything.
CliffStoll 10y ago
Yep, same guy. But I suspect that my wife and kids would dial down the adjectives.
- alxndr 10y ago
  Cliff, thank you for writing that book! It is what got me, like many others, seriously into exploring computers (in legal ways!).
Sidnicious 10y ago
Does anyone know where I can buy this an an e-book without DRM?
- CliffStoll 10y ago
  I think I have a copy, formatted as Mac Word on a 3.5" diskette, MFS format. I'll have to dig around my attic.
  - p4bl0 10y ago
    I have the book in paper (I just checked, it is right between Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother :)), but I also managed to find an ePub version online. It has no DRM. If you are okay with that I guess I can send it to Sidnicious. I was going to say that it could save you the trouble of digging around your attic but since it's you for all I know it consists in playing with an R/C car equipped with a camera which doesn't sound like trouble :D.
  - Sidnicious 10y ago
    What luck! My dad's been keeping our PowerBook 180c in a closet for a special occasion. It looks like Apple, Amazon, etc. all sell electronic copies, it's just that they can only be read on approved devices, and only for as long as the company in question keeps running its licensing servers, and that bothers me.

by p4bl0 10y ago

doomlaser 10y ago

One of my favorite things about reading that book as a kid was typing one of the IP addresses for the White Sands missile range computers into telnet and getting a Unix login prompt.

M_Grey 10y ago

It's really him? I loved that book as a kid! It was the first book I read that opened my eyes to the world of system administration, intrusion, etc. It's one of a handful of books that I still have on the shelf and loan out to the kids of any family friends.

JshWright 10y ago

Yep, that's him. I have often said that someday I want to be as passionate about something as Cliff Stoll is about everything.

CliffStoll 10y ago

Yep, same guy. But I suspect that my wife and kids would dial down the adjectives.

alxndr 10y ago
Cliff, thank you for writing that book! It is what got me, like many others, seriously into exploring computers (in legal ways!).

Sidnicious 10y ago

Does anyone know where I can buy this an an e-book without DRM?

CliffStoll 10y ago
I think I have a copy, formatted as Mac Word on a 3.5" diskette, MFS format. I'll have to dig around my attic.
- p4bl0 10y ago
  I have the book in paper (I just checked, it is right between Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother :)), but I also managed to find an ePub version online. It has no DRM. If you are okay with that I guess I can send it to Sidnicious. I was going to say that it could save you the trouble of digging around your attic but since it's you for all I know it consists in playing with an R/C car equipped with a camera which doesn't sound like trouble :D.
- Sidnicious 10y ago
  What luck! My dad's been keeping our PowerBook 180c in a closet for a special occasion. It looks like Apple, Amazon, etc. all sell electronic copies, it's just that they can only be read on approved devices, and only for as long as the company in question keeps running its licensing servers, and that bothers me.