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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).
The book's title is a reference the practice of brood parasitism among certain species of cuckoos, both Old and New World birds. In this practice, the cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and the unwitting hosts then expend their energy hatching the cuckoo's eggs, even at the potential expense of their own offspring.
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.
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
movemail is a computer program by the GNU Project that moves mail from a user's Unix mailspool to another file. It is part of GNU Mailutils. A compromising of movemail was the backbone of the hack described in The Cuckoo's Egg by which Markus Hess broke into the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computer system in 1986.
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The survival of cuckoo chicks depends on the ignorance of other species. Our mysterious visitor laid an egg-program into our computer, letting the system hatch it and feed it privileges. [...] His problem was to masquerade this special program—the cuckoo's egg—so that it would be hatched by the system."--BruceGrubb 20:05, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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