blog! “Book Review: The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll”
★★★★★
This book is outstanding. It's the mid 1980s, you're administrating a nascent fleet of UNIX boxen, and you are tasked with accounting for a 75¢ billing discrepancy. Naturally that eventually leads into an international conspiracy involving the FBI, NSA, and an excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It is…
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@Edent I read that many years ago. There were not so many geeky computer books back then.
@steevc @Edent I got it from my local library in 1993 and read it in one long sitting.
I had a bit of a break down earlier this year and spent two days reading it. Brought me back and made me realise what I want to be doing - sitting some SANS exams at the moment before launching my own one person IT security company for small companies.
@Edent i always forget the klein bottle guy has such a backstory
@Edent Cliff Stoll sells Klein bottles out of California these days!
He has a range on his website: https://www.kleinbottle.com/
And he'll even autograph them 
(sorry, I don't have a better copy of the inscription to hand!)
@crablab yes, I link to that on the blog post.
@Edent Ah, sorry I missed that link!
@Edent I read that back in the 90s and I am now wondering where I got the copy to read… I guess I probably persuaded the University (or possibly City) library to get a copy as I am sure its not on my bookshelves.
Definitely not an ebook in that era
@Edent I loved this - I read it soon after it came out, when modems were pretty exciting things.
And I remember "No hacker is worth missing a Grateful Dead concert for".