The Cuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)

from drardavis

Excellent true story of the first anti-hacking efforts. A Berkeley liberal realizes that anarchy is not the best policy and drags the government agencies, FBI, CIA, NSA, et. al. kicking and screaming on a chase through cyberspace. Boy am I old! I actually understand and remember all of the comput...

from rachel8973

I loved this. Great fun if your are one of those people who remembers sleeping under your desk to be there when your program finished compiling/linking.

from Clueless

The parallels between this and the last book I read 'Against all Enemies' were chilling.Absolutely fabulous writing...you'd expect - from the subject matter - that this would be as dry as a bone. But it's not. NOT AT ALL! Sometimes I have trouble following a whodunit. But not here -- it's all lai...

from TimBazzett

I was ready to give THE CUCKOO'S EGG a mere four stars, because this is just not really the kind of book I normally read. But then I decided that wouldn't be fair, or an accurate reflection of how I ended up reading it. Which was nearly nonstop from beginning to end. The book is almost 400 pages ...

from ABVR

When you get right down to it, this is a 400-page book about a year-long, painstaking search for an elusive hacker--a "ghost in the network"--two decades ago during the prehistory of the internet. The hero is a man detail-obsessed enough to notice a 75-cent accounting discrepancy and track it bac...