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Clifford Stoll

Born

in The United States

June 04, 1951

Website

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/

Genre

Computers & Internet

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Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll is an astronomer, author and teacher. He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation. ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 16,456 ratings · 1,399 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage 4.28 avg rating — 15,822 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway 3.35 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1995 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian 3.56 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.”
― Clifford Stoll

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“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information.

The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.”
― Clifford Stoll

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“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ”
― Clifford Stoll

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The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston (2002)

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll (1989)

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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman (2018)

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The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose (2020)

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich (1994)

Skunk Works A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich

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