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Subject: Re: really great NOVA show on computer hacker espionage
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In article <24404@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>I just saw the best thing I've ever seen on computers.
>This week's NOVA tells the true story of how a little astronomer
>at Berkeley stumbled upon an act of computer spying that involved
>the military, the CIA and the FBI. The whole thing began with
>what appeared to be a 75-cent computer accounting error.

        This is a repeat NOVA... I saw most of it the last time it
was on (originally).. 

        But read "The Cuckoo's Egg".. that's what the Nova episode is
a brief story about. The Cuckoo's Egg is a GREAT GREAT book
written by Clifford Stoll (the astronomer), and is just COOL as hell.

        Also read "Hackers" by Steven Levy for a great general book on
computing.. NOT breaking in places and stuff, that's  NOT what a hacker
is.
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