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So cool that you're on HN (and alive, of course). My interest in hacking began when I read The Cuckoo's Egg as a kid.
by djeastm 5mo ago
So cool that you're on HN (and alive, of course). My interest in hacking began when I read The Cuckoo's Egg as a kid.
- CliffStoll 5mo agoThanks DJ of the East. It's strange to have written a book aimed at grownups and find that astute kids picked up on it. Now, of course, the book's antique: Arpanet? 1200 baud modems? Phone booths? If you know what those are, then you're probably worrying about 401(K)'s and Medicare.
- djeastm 5mo ago>astute kids "Astute" would be quite a surprise for my parents to hear, given they received a not-so-friendly letter from our ISP telling us to quit probing their network's security...