Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 28 Apr 91 22:09:00 GMT From: Bill Woodcock Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Living in America Message-ID: Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 314, Message 3 of 8 Lines: 26 > As a final note, the PBS Nova program featuring a re-creation of > the tracing of the German/KGB hacking ring was broadcast. Cliff > Stoll played himself in > the program, as well as the other > participants in the trace, complete with location shots in > Germany. Check your local PBS station or TV listings... I talked to Cliff not long after they'd finished filming it, and he didn't seem too happy about it. Specifically, they shot one scene in the forest where the German hacker was found burned to death, and the director apparently kept trying to get him to be more "lighthearted" which he found to be in rather poor taste. He said the whole thing was shot on 16mm film, rather than video, but was low budget, so they couln't do more than one or two takes of any scene. Also, apparently almost all the people at Laurence Berkeley Labs played themselves, and got a big kick out of it. He said that only the Intelligence types wouldn't agree to appear in the documentary, and that the producers got some football coaches to play them, although I don't know whether he was thrying to make a joke on that one. :-? bill.woodcock.iv..woody@ucscb.ucsc.edu 2355.virginia.st..berkeley.ca.94709.1315