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Everyone should read the book! (The Cuckoo’s Egg) - it’s really awesome.

by buildbot 3y ago

ackbar03 3y ago
There's quite a few interesting cameo's, including Robert Morris (Morris Worm) and Paul Graham himself.
- cpach 3y ago
  pg too? I had totally forgotten about that.
  - jhbadger 3y ago
    I was curious and found the one mention of pg, in the discussion of the Morris Worm: So Bob Morris's son froze two thousand computers. Why? To impress his dad? As a Halloween prank? To show off to a couple thousand computer programmers? Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in cahoots with his father. Rumours have it that he worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris Sr, said, "This isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."
    - ackbar03 3y ago
      I seemed to have recalled there was a bit more than just a mention, but I might have confused it with some other stuff I read. A lot of well known figures seemed to have crossed paths during the early days of the internet which I found pretty fascinating
EvanAnderson 3y ago
Cliff is on HN, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll The Cuckoo's Egg was formative in my youth. Great book.
forinti 3y ago
I read the book a long long time ago (highly recommend it) and only now, watching the video, recognized Stoll as the Klein Bottle guy.
atribecalledqst 3y ago
I read the Cuckoo's Egg when I was in like 6th grade, and even though I didn't REALLY understand what was going on at the time, I've always wondered if it subconsciously influenced me towards becoming more computer-savvy, to my present day form as a command line junkie ;) IIRC I randomly picked it out from the local Borders too (realize I'm dating myself with that one) so that's some real "Dalai Lama reincarnation" stuff going on there. Like it was fated...
fullspectrumdev 3y ago
One security company I worked at had it as required reading for new hires - you were given a copy as part of onboarding. I honestly think that was an excellent idea - there’s a good amount of valuable lessons for an analyst to glean from reading it. I can think of very few other books in the IT security field that are as well written and as compelling besides maybe Silence on the Wire, The Tangled Web, or Innocent Code.

Everyone should read the book! (The Cuckoo’s Egg) - it’s really awesome.

ackbar03 3y ago

There's quite a few interesting cameo's, including Robert Morris (Morris Worm) and Paul Graham himself.

cpach 3y ago
pg too? I had totally forgotten about that.
- jhbadger 3y ago
  I was curious and found the one mention of pg, in the discussion of the Morris Worm: So Bob Morris's son froze two thousand computers. Why? To impress his dad? As a Halloween prank? To show off to a couple thousand computer programmers? Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in cahoots with his father. Rumours have it that he worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris Sr, said, "This isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."
  - ackbar03 3y ago
    I seemed to have recalled there was a bit more than just a mention, but I might have confused it with some other stuff I read. A lot of well known figures seemed to have crossed paths during the early days of the internet which I found pretty fascinating

EvanAnderson 3y ago

Cliff is on HN, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll The Cuckoo's Egg was formative in my youth. Great book.

forinti 3y ago

I read the book a long long time ago (highly recommend it) and only now, watching the video, recognized Stoll as the Klein Bottle guy.

atribecalledqst 3y ago

I read the Cuckoo's Egg when I was in like 6th grade, and even though I didn't REALLY understand what was going on at the time, I've always wondered if it subconsciously influenced me towards becoming more computer-savvy, to my present day form as a command line junkie ;) IIRC I randomly picked it out from the local Borders too (realize I'm dating myself with that one) so that's some real "Dalai Lama reincarnation" stuff going on there. Like it was fated...

fullspectrumdev 3y ago

One security company I worked at had it as required reading for new hires - you were given a copy as part of onboarding. I honestly think that was an excellent idea - there’s a good amount of valuable lessons for an analyst to glean from reading it. I can think of very few other books in the IT security field that are as well written and as compelling besides maybe Silence on the Wire, The Tangled Web, or Innocent Code.