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From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
Subject: Re: really great NOVA show on computer hacker espionage
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 11:33:45 GMT

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.
>The narrative is straightforward and whimsical, and totally gripping.
>It gets extremely emotional at the end. I AM SPEECHLESS, YOU WILL
>WATCH THIS. OH MY GOD, YOU THOUGHT NOVA WAS BORING?
>IF you have any interesting notes about this story, please send.
>Note: it was on San Fran's channel 9 tonight (Tue 4/23) and will be
>on again Wed midnight, does anyone know when else here?
>-- 
>Robert Chao
>Oakland, California

That episode of Nova was based on Cliff Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg:
tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage". It is available
in paperback from Pocket Books, ISBN 0-671-72688-9.


-- 

Larry Stern                                  LDSTERN@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU