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There was also a television adaptation, "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" produced by PBS Nova in like 1992, starring Clifford Stoll as Cliff Stoll! Here is a bo
by cartoonworld 5y ago
There was also a television adaptation, "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" produced by PBS Nova in like 1992, starring Clifford Stoll as Cliff Stoll!
Here is a bootlegged youtube link--it's the best I've got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
A legend!
- MR4D 5y agoThat you are linking to a bootleg copy of video on this thread is...ironic, to say the least.
- adolph 5y agoWell, it is unavailable on Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp...
- ASalazarMX 5y agoDon't worry, I'm sure "AMVOOM The KGB, the Computer, and Me" will be listed anytime soon.
- kirillzubovsky 5y agoFascinating movie, thank you for linking to it! I loved to see what logging and tracing looked like back in the day. Looks a lot more fun than just dumping terabytes to S3. I also really enjoyed how stoked and energetic Cliff was about the whole thing. What a gem!
- belter 5y agoThank you for the link. Amazing. And Cliff as himself ! I read the book but just could not stop watching the documentary. Next time I am in Hannover will have to take a photo in front of the flat. It got a repaint though... https://www.google.com/maps/@52.371627,9.7208921,3a,53.1y,139.11h,86.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjE4vXqAv0Vh8Rzco1Nk0LQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.371627,9.7208921,3a,53.1y,13...
- CliffStoll 5y agoOoh ... I visited there way back when. Down where that bike is parked there was a coin-operated cigarette machine. And they sold Benson & Hedges ciggies (which were the passwords that the hackers had chosen). Sends me way back, Belter.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoWanna really nerd out, here's the Grateful Dead show Cliff cut out of hacker chasing to go attend: https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-21.sbd.brame.15406.sbeok.shnf https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-21.sbd.brame.15406.sbeok...
- belter 5y ago"A bass guitar note took my attention from the hacker’s trail. The Grateful Dead were playing outdoors at the Berkeley Greek Theater, only a hundred yards downhill from the lab. The police couldn’t keep people from sitting in the field overlooking the concert, so I skipped over there, mingling with a thousand others in tie-dyed shirts. Burnt-out panhandlers, left over from the sixties, walked the crowd, begging tickets and selling posters, buttons, and grass. The drum solo in the second set echoed from Strawberry Canyon, adding a weird backbeat appreciated only by us cheapskates in the fields. Life was full: no hacker is worth missing a Dead concert for..." "The Cuckoo's Egg" - Pag 35 (on my edition)
- CliffStoll 5y agoComplete agreement — wouldn’t miss a Dead concert for anything. Hmmm - I seem to be agreeing with myself. I tend to do that, occasionally.
- apendleton 5y agoIt looks like archive.org also has it: https://archive.org/details/The_KGB_The_Computer_and_Me_1990 https://archive.org/details/The_KGB_The_Computer_and_Me_1990