[HN Gopher] Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking Back at Cliff Stoll's...
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Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking Back at Cliff Stoll's Classic the
Cuckoo's Egg
Author : Hooke
Score : 24 points
Date : 2022-08-21 17:52 UTC (4 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.lawfareblog.com)
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| This book was mandatory reading on the MSc in Information
| Security at Royal Holloway back in the 2000s.
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| It's also an amazing and gripping true story. Well worth the time
| for anyone to read, whether they work in security or not.
| michaelmcdonald wrote:
| Obligatory mention of his Klein bottle business and absolute
| willingness to meet and converse with guests. It's a dream of
| mine to visit him with my son and hope to someday; reports of his
| kindness are legendary.
| charles_kaw wrote:
| I ran into him at the post office in rockridge/temescal. I
| asked him if he was indeed Cliff. We stepped outside and
| chatted for about half an hour. It was an incredibly good
| conversation.
| O__________O wrote:
| Interesting, didn't realize that's Cliff.
|
| - Related Numberphile:
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPY&list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI...
|
| - Direct link to his Klein bottle website:
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| https://www.kleinbottle.com/
| cowmix wrote:
| When I had my little ISP on Phoenix, AZ back in '93, EVERY new
| customer received a softcover copy of the Cuckoo's Egg.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I remember reading this while driving from LA to Vegas for CES in
| 2005 or so. I don't think I looked out the window of the car once
| for the entire drive - this book is a page turner for sure.
| ErikAugust wrote:
| Did you know: Paul Graham is in the book!
| er4hn wrote:
| I remember Robert Moore in the epilogue. Where was Paul Graham?
| TMWNN wrote:
| Paul Graham is implied to have known about Robert Morris's
| Morris Worm before its deployment
| O__________O wrote:
| Yes, Paul was mentioned in the context of Robert's worm,
| specifically:
|
| >> "Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in
| cahoots with his father. Rumors have it that he worked with a
| friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard
| student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the
| brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage
| anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris, Sr., said, "This
| isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."
|
| __
|
| From Wikipedia: "The Morris worm or Internet worm of November
| 2, 1988, was one of the oldest computer worms distributed via
| the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream
| media attention. It also resulted in the first felony
| conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse
| Act. It was written by a graduate student at Cornell
| University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2,
| 1988, from the computer systems of the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology. [1] He went on to cofound the online
| store Viaweb, one of the first web applications, and later
| the venture capital funding firm Y Combinator, both with Paul
| Graham. [2] "
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| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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| [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
| O__________O wrote:
| FYI - Cliff Stoll is active on HN:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575753
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