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The article mentions one of the things I remember most about The Cuckoo’s Egg. It was Stoll's use of simple tech, a printer, to securely log the activities of
by jgerrish 4y ago
The article mentions one of the things I remember most about The Cuckoo’s Egg. It was Stoll's use of simple tech, a printer, to securely log the activities of the intruder.
No worrying about tampered logs, or any of that.
Of course, he had physical security at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
I wouldn't want to play that game if I was in an insecure location. It's just not fun.
Still, good book. Formative in my youth.
- CliffStoll 4y agoPartly because, as a physicist and a ham, it was way easier to solder and clip lead some RS232 wires than to reprogram a tty daemon.