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From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
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Subject: NOVA, Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll, hacker spy, KGB and me
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Date: 29 Apr 91 00:52:20 GMT
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Last week I wrote an article praising the Nova dramatization of "Cuckoo's
Egg," the true story of Cliff Stoll, a Berkeley scientist who tracked down
a hacker who broke into military computers.
About eight million people wrote and explained that the story I was raving
about was also a book. (I didn't know that at the time.) Some of the people
know Cliff and said he posts to rec.arts.books. He is a frequent speaker and
has been on Good Morning America and CSPAN. He wrote a good article on the 
ACM jounal once. Apparently he is at Harvard now? Whatever happened to his
sweetheart, the law student? I wonder which Radio Shack that was. Maybe the
one on Shattuck.
There was a scheduling error for San Fran Bay area people and it wasn't
repeated on Wednesday (4/17) as was listed. I believe NOVAs are available on
videocassettes. Does anyone know how long they take to come out? Some people
who wrote me said the book is better, but people say that about everything.
Several respondents told me to read "Hackers" by Stephen Levy who by the
way now works at Macworld magazine. On the subject of NOVA, how long has this
series run, and what are the really outstanding episodes? 
-- 
Robert Chao
Oakland, California