The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. Gave it 5 stars. Sharp, honest, and gripping from page one. The best true cyber spy story I have ever read.
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Stoll built a fake military project to trap a KGB hacker. It worked. The Cuckoo's Egg is one of the first true accounts of cyber espionage ever written.
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In 1986 a hacker named Markus Hess broke into US military systems from West Germany and sold the data to the KGB. Cliff Stoll caught him. A 5-star read.
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The FBI was not interested. The CIA dragged its feet. Cliff Stoll kept going alone. The Cuckoo's Egg proves one curious person can change everything.
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A 75-cent billing error. A hacker selling US secrets to the KGB. One astronomer who refused to look away. The Cuckoo's Egg is a true spy story like no other.
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I still like emoticons ;)

I have Clifford Stoll to thank for introducing me to them via his book, "The Cuckoo's Egg" circa 1990.

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I first got exposed to emoticons in the early 90s reading Cliff Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg." He refers to :-), and I was like, "WHOA, that's cool!" ;)

P.S., the Cuckoo's Egg was his term (actually his then-girlfriend's term) for what we now call a honeypot.

#CliffStoll #CuckoosEgg

Today we have the immense joy of highlighting @McDwayne's #BSidesBoulder24 talk on how to employ cyber deception tools as tripwires to detect attackers. @McDwayne plans to discuss lessons learned from the early days of #infosec dating back to Cliff Stoll tracking Russian state sponsored hackers #CuckoosEgg through CyberCop, honeytokens, and more. @McDwayne will also provide insights on how he and team incorporated some of these techniques into a CTF they ran at AppSec Village at #DefCon.

Will Damron's read of the audiobook of Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" is excellent.

While the book is required reading or listening as a historical record for anyone interested in Information Security, it's a thoroughly enjoyable thriller. Though much of the technology mentioned is familiar to folks who are thinking I'm about to call them old, it's unsurprising how much remains painfully pertinent today, yet pleasing how a few things have improved significantly given only a few decades.

While some library networks such as the DoD MWR will keep you waiting months for one of their few copies, Fairfax County has unlimited copies of the audiobook.

I hope @AndresFreundTec is keeping good notes on his adventures with xz/liblzma.

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The #xz news broke while I was at con and almost entirely offline, and what posts I’ve seen are technical enough that I haven’t _entirely_ understood it (I’m a fairly knowledgeable generalist geek, but no programmer), but I’m starting to get the impression that this is something along the lines of a modern version of #CliffStoll’s #CuckoosEgg? One person finds a tiny flaw that, once dug into, becomes a big β€œholy shit this is bad” realization?