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It's Cliff Stoll, not just some wacky guy. He is extremely famous among people who were interested in computer security in the 90s. I know that's not the sense
by notfashion 7y ago
It's Cliff Stoll, not just some wacky guy. He is extremely famous among people who were interested in computer security in the 90s. I know that's not the sense of "hacker" that "hacker news" refers to, but still.
- espeed 7y agoYes. He wrote The Cuckoo's Egg for one. My uncle gave me the book when I was a kid. The first Java program I wrote was a sequence generator for the Morris Number Sequence [2] given to Stoll by Robert Morris Sr at the NSA: "What is the next number in the sequence 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg