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Is he really the same Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage? It is one of my all time favorite books. I really recommend it if you haven't read it already. I didn't know Cliff Stoll also made other awesome stuff. He really seems to be an amazing person.

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One of my favorite things about reading that book as a kid was typing one of the IP addresses for the White Sands missile range computers into telnet and getting a Unix login prompt.

Yep, that's him.

I have often said that someday I want to be as passionate about something as Cliff Stoll is about everything.

Yep, same guy. But I suspect that my wife and kids would dial down the adjectives.

Cliff, thank you for writing that book! It is what got me, like many others, seriously into exploring computers (in legal ways!).

It's really him? I loved that book as a kid! It was the first book I read that opened my eyes to the world of system administration, intrusion, etc. It's one of a handful of books that I still have on the shelf and loan out to the kids of any family friends.

Does anyone know where I can buy this an an e-book without DRM?

I think I have a copy, formatted as Mac Word on a 3.5" diskette, MFS format. I'll have to dig around my attic.

I have the book in paper (I just checked, it is right between Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother :)), but I also managed to find an ePub version online. It has no DRM. If you are okay with that I guess I can send it to Sidnicious. I was going to say that it could save you the trouble of digging around your attic but since it's you for all I know it consists in playing with an R/C car equipped with a camera which doesn't sound like trouble :D.

What luck! My dad's been keeping our PowerBook 180c in a closet for a special occasion.

It looks like Apple, Amazon, etc. all sell electronic copies, it's just that they can only be read on approved devices, and only for as long as the company in question keeps running its licensing servers, and that bothers me.

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