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From: billg@hitachi.uucp (Bill Gundry)
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Subject: Re: really great NOVA show on computer hacker espionage
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:57:28 GMT
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From article <24404@well.sf.ca.us>, by rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao):
> 
> 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?
> -- 

Well I would use the term "overacted", if that is a term. Watching
Stoller run from home to his printers get kinda boring. Read the
book, it gives more detail, and relates more to his "conversion"
from a feeling a little paranoid about government and its various
agencies to feeling that they are people too, with their jobs and
problems to cope with. I thought that was one of the more interesting
sidelights of the whole affair.

Bill Gundry
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