The Cuckoo's Egg (book)
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The Cuckoo's Egg is a book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The author discovered a USD$.75 accounting error in the computer usage accounts. Tracing the error he eventually discovered two crackers in West Germany apparently spying for the KGB.
External link
- The author's web page about the book (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/cuckoos_egg.html)