The Cuckoo's Egg - Page 2

Deskisamess · 10-07-2020, 02:32 PM

My public library has the Kindle, Overdrive, and ePub versions.

zakman · 10-17-2020, 10:44 PM

Read this back in the day (1990, still have my battered paperback copy on my shelf) and thoroughly recommend it. Stoll does an excellent job of explaining how he (an astronomer) ended up becoming a systems administrator, what drew his attention to the hacker in the first place, and gives a detailed, engaging account of how he tracked the hacker from California to Germany through an Internet very different from what we're familiar with today.

gwynevans · 10-29-2020, 08:37 PM

If you do find Cookoo’s Egg interesting, you might also find “Soul of a New Machine” of interest. It’s Tracy Kidder’s non-fiction story of the development of a new microcomputer by a team in Data General during the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

LDB · 10-29-2020, 09:56 PM

Just ordered a copy. Thanks for posting it.

xxyzz · 11-10-2020, 08:56 AM

I have read this book early this year and really enjoy it. I also like his Numberphile videos.

xxyzz · 11-10-2020, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynevans

If you do find Cookoo’s Egg interesting, you might also find “Soul of a New Machine” of interest. It’s Tracy Kidder’s non-fiction story of the development of a new microcomputer by a team in Data General during the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

I also head read this book last year. It's recommend by an OS text book.

xxyzz · 11-11-2020, 07:18 AM

I forgot to post the documentary of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I Cliff's haircut doesn't change much over the years...

haertig · 11-12-2020, 02:58 PM

If you find the cyber crime genre interesting, another good one is "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver.

Here's the blurb about it from Deaver's website:

https://www.jefferydeaver.com/novel/the-blue-nowhere/

I found it to be a good book. Recommended.

frailtyy · 01-14-2021, 08:40 AM

I've been meaning to give this a look after going through a few newer computer espionage titles. This is always held up as the earliest example of "one of those". This isn't a first-person memoir and is very recent although if you like the tech side of things, I'd recommend "Sandworm" by Wired's Andy Greenberg. It's got the content and pacing of a good documentary while talking about some contemporary cyber-terrorism concepts.

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10-07-2020, 02:32 PM	#16
Deskisamess Wizard Posts: 2,607 Karma: 42697471 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ohio Device: iPhone 7+, iPad mini, 2021 iPad Pro 12.9",Paperwhite 6.8"	My public library has the Kindle, Overdrive, and ePub versions.

10-17-2020, 10:44 PM	#17
zakman Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 2119794 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2019	Read this back in the day (1990, still have my battered paperback copy on my shelf) and thoroughly recommend it. Stoll does an excellent job of explaining how he (an astronomer) ended up becoming a systems administrator, what drew his attention to the hacker in the first place, and gives a detailed, engaging account of how he tracked the hacker from California to Germany through an Internet very different from what we're familiar with today.

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gwynevans Wizzard Posts: 1,402 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: iPad 2, iPhone 6s, Kindle Voyage & Kindle PaperWhite	If you do find Cookoo’s Egg interesting, you might also find “Soul of a New Machine” of interest. It’s Tracy Kidder’s non-fiction story of the development of a new microcomputer by a team in Data General during the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

10-29-2020, 09:56 PM	#19
LDB Baker Street Irregular Posts: 439 Karma: 9920853 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston suburb Device: Oasis 3, PaperWhite 5, Aura One, Glowlight Plus, Scribe, Sage	Just ordered a copy. Thanks for posting it.

11-10-2020, 08:56 AM	#20
xxyzz Evangelist Posts: 411 Karma: 2666666 Join Date: Nov 2020 Device: none	I have read this book early this year and really enjoy it. I also like his Numberphile videos.

11-11-2020, 07:18 AM	#22
xxyzz Evangelist Posts: 411 Karma: 2666666 Join Date: Nov 2020 Device: none	I forgot to post the documentary of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I Cliff's haircut doesn't change much over the years...

11-12-2020, 02:58 PM	#23
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,738 Karma: 26006874 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	If you find the cyber crime genre interesting, another good one is "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver. Here's the blurb about it from Deaver's website: https://www.jefferydeaver.com/novel/the-blue-nowhere/ I found it to be a good book. Recommended.

01-14-2021, 08:40 AM	#24
frailtyy Member Posts: 21 Karma: 1458640 Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: PDX Device: Kobo Libra H2O, Kindle Paperwhite	I've been meaning to give this a look after going through a few newer computer espionage titles. This is always held up as the earliest example of "one of those". This isn't a first-person memoir and is very recent although if you like the tech side of things, I'd recommend "Sandworm" by Wired's Andy Greenberg. It's got the content and pacing of a good documentary while talking about some contemporary cyber-terrorism concepts.

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