[HN Gopher] Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking Back at Cliff Stoll's... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.lawfareblog.com) (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. | | 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: | | 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] " | | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm | | [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris | O__________O wrote: | FYI - Cliff Stoll is active on HN: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575753 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-25 23:00 UTC)