cukoos egg

[bigvoo]

The thread about passwords jogged my memory about this book, did anyone else here read "cukoos egg" by Cliff Stooll ? man, that just blew my mind back in the day..a 17 cent error on a Berkley unix server leading to international hackers that had gotten into u.s missle bases...HOW? you ask...because the default password : (password) had not been changed, the ( public ) internet was so new back then, that the f.b.i and local law inforcement fought about who "wasn't" going to look into this...how things have changed.

[questio verum]

The thread about passwords jogged my memory about this book, did anyone else here read "cukoos egg" by Cliff Stooll ? man, that just blew my mind back in the day..a 17 cent error on a Berkley unix server leading to international hackers that had gotten into u.s missle bases...HOW? you ask...because the default password : (password) had not been changed, the ( public ) internet was so new back then, that the f.b.i and local law inforcement fought about who "wasn't" going to look into this...how things have changed.

Yup... the top will never go back on that box.

[arinlares]

do you mean Clifford Stoll?. I'll have to give that one a read. he has a video where he talks about that incident, i think, on this video, or not... i just watched it (for the third time this year), but i think that's him.

[GNU-Fan]

I read it recently. I think it is a great thrilling story. The author did a nice job to describe it feelings in a way that the reader really becomes attached to him and his goal to nail the perpetrator. You can't just stop reading it because you think "Go bust that bastard on the next page" all the time.

PS: I love the part where he visits that CIA headquarter and plays with all that "Top Secret"-stamps in order to apply them on his calender -- making all the agents suspicious when he tries to get home with that.