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🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll”
★★★★★

This book is outstanding. It's the mid 1980s, you're administrating a nascent fleet of UNIX boxen, and you are tasked with accounting for a 75¢ billing discrepancy. Naturally that eventually leads into an international conspiracy involving the FBI, NSA, and an excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It is…

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Terence Eden’s Blog · Book Review: The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford StollThis book is outstanding. It's the mid 1980s, you're administrating a nascent fleet of UNIX boxen, and you are tasked with accounting for a 75¢ billing discrepancy. Naturally that eventually leads into an international conspiracy involving the FBI, NSA, and an excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It is a fast paced, high-tension, page turner. [...]

@Edent I read that back in the 90s and I am now wondering where I got the copy to read… I guess I probably persuaded the University (or possibly City) library to get a copy as I am sure its not on my bookshelves.

Definitely not an ebook in that era

SK53

@nmeth @Edent I don't think I ever saw it in European book shop, had been on my reading list for a while when I bought my paper copy in Harvard in 2002.