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CLIFFORD STOLL
Author, High-Tech Heretic
Clifford Stoll gained worldwide
security and selling the secrets to the
attention as a cyberspace sleuth when
KGB for money and cocaine.
he wrote his bestselling book, The
Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through
Since catching the “Hanover Hacker”
the Maze of Computer Espionage, the
(Hanover, West Germany), Stoll has
page-turning true story of how he
become a leading expert on computer
caught a ring of hackers who stole
security and has given talks for both
secrets from military computer
the CIA and the National Security
CREDENTIALS
systems and sold them to the KGB.
Agency, as well as the U.S. Senate.
MSNBC Commentator
He has become a leading authority
Stoll is also the author of two
Berkeley astronomer
on computer security, presenting to
engaging and counter-intuitive
the CIA, NSA and the U.S. Senate. His
critiques of technology’s role in
lecture presentations are energetic
culture written in his trademark
BOOKS
and entertaining, and showcase
quiet and folksy style full of droll wit
The Cuckoo’s Egg:
Clifford’s dry wit and penetrating
and penetrating insights. In Silicon
Tracking a Spy Through
views. Clifford Stoll is a commentator
Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the
the Maze of Computer
Expionage
for MSNBC and an astronomer at the
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does an about-face, warning that
Information Highway
category of books on capturing
the promises of the Internet have
High Tech Heretic: Why
computer criminals. He began by
been oversold and that we will pay
Computers Don’t Belong
investigating a 75-cent error in time
a high price for its affects on real
in the Classroom and
Other Refl ections by a
billing for the university computer lab
human interaction. High Tech Heretic:
Computer Contrarian
for which he was systems manager
Why Computers Don’t Belong in the
and ended up uncovering a ring of
Classroom and Other Refl ections by a
industrial espionage. Working for
Computer Contrarian asks readers to
a year without support from his
check the assumptions that dominate
employers or the
our thinking about technology and
government, he
the role of computers, especially in
eventually tracked the
our classrooms. As one who loves
lead to a German spy
computers as much as he disdains
hacking into American
them, he admits to being deeply
computer networks
ambivalent about computers, and
involved with national
questions the role of networks in our
culture.
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