{"id":1997,"date":"2016-05-25T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:39:48","slug":"the-cuckoos-egg-tracking-a-spy-through-the-maze-of-computer-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">by Clifford Stoll, originally published in 1989, Kindle edition by Doubleday, 2012 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clifford Stoll was an IT employee at Berkeley Labs in the 1980&#8217;s when he noticed a discrepancy of only 75 cents between the computer logs that tracked usage of the mainframe computers and the billing records.\u00c2\u00a0 Through his investigation, he discovered that a hacker was accessing the computers at Berkeley and subsequently at other supposedly secure computer sites in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Because Stoll kept a log of all of his actions, he was able to write a detailed account of how he tracked down the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a little dated as it references some systems that are no longer in use and, because of the detail the author provides, it sometimes drags a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Nevertheless, the book is a very interesting story about how he tracked down the hacker and it also provides some helpful insight as to how to protect computers from such assaults, even in today&#8217;s world. <span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Clifford Stoll, originally published in 1989, Kindle edition by Doubleday, 2012 Clifford Stoll was an IT employee at Berkeley Labs in the 1980&#8217;s when he noticed a discrepancy of only 75 cents between the computer logs that tracked usage <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1997\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}