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I thought this article sounded familiar! :-) The Cuckoo's egg is an amazing read.
by danesparza 9y ago
I thought this article sounded familiar! :-) The Cuckoo's egg is an amazing read.
- endgame 9y agoI can't believe that I found a copy for 50c in a second-hand store. I call it my "most precious item" because it has the highest price:enjoyment ratio of anything I own.
- marak830 9y agoJust purchased, thanks for the heads up everyone, I'm looking forward to this.
- razakel 9y agoThe hacker Stoll was tracking, Markus Hess, was affiliated with other hackers that went on to found Chaos Computer Club. One of the people he was working alongside, Karl Koch, was selling military information to the KGB in exchange for cocaine. He developed some form of paranoid psychosis and seemed to believe he was fighting the Illuminati. There was a German film made about this called "23" (Koch was obsessed with the cult classic conspiracy fiction novel Illuminatus, and used the pseudonym "hagbard" after a character in the book). He was found burned to death in woodland; it was ruled suicide.