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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll.It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
Cuckoo's Egg is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, which introduces a fictional race (the Shonunin) raising a human boy.It was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year.
Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher.. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, [3] and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.
Stoll trapped Hess by creating records of a bogus military project conducted on LBL computers; according to The Cuckoo's Egg, he and his girlfriend conceived this plan while showering, giving it the unofficial name of "Operation Showerhead". While the bogus information was convincing, the primary goal was simply to keep the hacker connected ...
The concept has been in use in the study of brood parasitism in birds since the 19th century. It first evolved a metaphoric meaning of "misplaced trust", [1] wherein the chick hatched of a cuckoo's egg, having been surreptitiously laid among the eggs of another bird of a different, smaller, species , and thereupon incubated by the unwitting host parents, will consume any food brought by them ...
Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg gives a first-person account of the hunt and eventual identification and arrest of Hess in March 1989. Pengo and Koch subsequently came forward and confessed to the authorities under the espionage amnesty, which protected them from being prosecuted.
Cuckoo's egg may refer to: Cuckoo's egg (metaphor), a metaphor for brood parasitism including references to spycraft and malware; Cookoo's Egg, a cryptographic puzzle; Cuckoo's Egg, a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh; The Cuckoo's Egg, a 1989 book by Clifford Stoll
In the epilogue of his book The Cuckoo's Egg, Stoll details his efforts battling the Morris worm. In Halt and Catch Fire, a virus that works in a similar way to the Morris worm is created to gauge the size of the network. In Date Time, an indie developed video game, the Morris worm is portrayed as a character in a dating sim.