the cuckoo's egg

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the cuckoo's egg - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  The Cuckoo's Egg
  Cuckoo's Egg
  
     A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true
     story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's
     Lawrence Berkeley Lab.  A 75-cent accounting error alerted
     him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on
     his system.  The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking
     into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and
     security information.  Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in
     cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
  
     ["The Cuckoo's Egg", Clifford Stoll, London: Bodley Head,
     1990, ISBN 0-370-31433-6, ISBN 0-671-72688-9].
  
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     (1994-11-15)