This NOVA special is based on Clifford Stoll’s novel, “The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage.” Clifford’s search for a 75 cent accounting error led to the discovery of a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, exploiting a vulnerability in the movemail function of the original GNU Emacs.
Clifford would later acquire the investigative assistance of agents at the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Air Force OSI. Since this was believed to be the first documented case of cracking (Stoll keep a daily log book of the cracker's activity) there was some confusion as to jurisdiction and a general reluctance to share information (Stoll quotes an NSA agent as saying, "We listen, we don't talk").
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fireflyThis is of particular interest to me, as the defense contractor the hacker used to gain telephone access happens to be where I work. Lucky for him I wasn’t yet employed there (not on MY watch you don’t!)
MINKurgh sorry... music and sponsorship and narration all yukky.
jonnymink - The sponsorship is necessary because this is PBS, but note the lack of commercials - it's not from editing.
As for the narration, well, that's the guy - he's a geeky scientist, cut him some slack.
And the music? Well, what were you expecting? Reggae?
[edit] Awesome - he made a honeypot for his cracker way back in 86.
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spoco2Fascinating subject, but I HATE reenactments HATE them... I so much prefer the participants just telling us what happened, we don't need people 'acting' as they did... just tell us what happened and show us where the things happened.
*sigh*
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