Stalking the wily hacker

  • Authors:
  • Clifford Stoll

  • Affiliations:
  • Lawrence Berkeley aboratory, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

An astronomer-turned-sleuth traces a German trespasser on our military networks, who slipped through operating system security holes and browsed through sensitive databases. Was it espionage?