Cooking the Cuckoo's Egg

I can pick up and read Cuckoo's Egg anytime and re-read it and every time it is just as exciting. If you haven't read it, you should.

Also, the NOVA documentary is available on YouTube, viz.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1swbLfrP6g

Worth watching (but read the book first!)

The Cuckoo's Egg was the first real computer book I read. I went home and tried Unix commands on my DOS 6.21 286.

I read it years later - this time understanding what was going a wee bit better. Still a good book.

It was and is a great book.

The presentation linked is also pretty interesting. To me it has a ring of Psychology of Programming, wherein the same issues are found endemic to the situation for decades and decades.

The Cuckoo's Egg is a fantastic book and definitely worth a read for regardless of forensic interest. It's very well written and a great story.

The slide author is one of the most knowledgeable experts on incident response today, his blog[1] is definitely worth a read now and again.

If you want to see what large scale operations look like today, the Ghostnet report[2] makes for compelling reading.

[1] - http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/

[2] - http://www.scribd.com/doc/13731776/Tracking-GhostNet-Investi...

if you haven't read the book, you may not want to look at the slides because it basically spoils the entire thing.

if you have read the book, you may be interested in the movie 23 (not the jim carrey movie "the number 23") which tells part of the story from the other side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)