![CUCKOO'S EGG by [Stoll, Clifford]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FvGO6fPKL._SY346_.jpg)
A great read. If you're a Unix sysadmin, like myself, you will recognize and emphathize with a lot of the concepts. If you've been doing sysadmin work for more than a decade, like myself, then you'll remember the old technologies as described in this book - the modems, the bulliten boards, the days before "ssh" ... If you're a new-school sysadmin, then you will be suprised to see a lot of things haven't changed in the world of Unix: telnet is still around, the "root" account is still around. The foundations of Unix were laid in the early 1970s. The events of this book took place in the 1980s. And many of the command line tools are still in use today.
Anyway, a lot of sysadmins learn their trade because they are thrown into the fire without any prior experience, as happened to the author of this book, and it's entertaining to see him, a computer novice, teach himself what he needed to know to track down a hacker and to educate the U.S. military people in the process. I also found it interesting that, despite the fact that the author was basically a liberal, "anti-establishment", ex-hippie, he nonetheless felt such a sense of pride in his computer network that he was offended that a hacker should be in there mucking around, and this feeling of "ownership" and "responsibility" for his network spurred him on to try to catch the guy.
If you don't know anything about computers, you'll enjoy the book because, not only does the author explain concepts in layman terms, but as others have pointed out the book itself reads like a spy novel of sorts, and there's also quite a bit of humor thrown in, so it's quite entertaining overall.
- File Size: 2334 KB
- Print Length: 418 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (May 23, 2012)
- Publication Date: May 23, 2012
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0083DJXCM
- Text-to-Speech:
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- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#102,063 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #13 in Network Security
- #51 in Biographies of Espionage
- #41 in Terrorism (Kindle Store)
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