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Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"-Smithsonian.
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-a mysterious invader who managed to break into US computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases-a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA … and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
© 2020 Tantor Audio (Luisterboek): 9781977300478
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Luisterboek: 31 januari 2020
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4.5
Non-fictie
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"-Smithsonian.
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-a mysterious invader who managed to break into US computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases-a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA … and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
© 2020 Tantor Audio (Luisterboek): 9781977300478
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 31 januari 2020
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Coen
9 okt 2022
Een welliswaar erg gedateerd maar ook mooi beeld uit de tijd dat de computerwereld nog plat was. Als de schrijver toen een blik vooruit had kunnen werpen op de huidige tijd ...
Albert
26 aug 2023
Great to read about the early internet.
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