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	Linux.com :: ApacheCon 2006: The state of the feather and more
		Cliff Stoll, the hacker-catching, planetary astronomer, author, and volunteer 7th grade science teacher, followed Striker with a keynote address which included a demonstration of how he taught a 7th grade science class to measure the speed of light.
		He started off with a blowgun and a stuffed monkey, demonstrating the physics involved in simultaneously firing a "dart" from the blowgun and dropping the stuffed monkey from where it was suspended twenty feet away, and still managing to hit it with a dart.
		Stoll argues that the computers are bad because the students use them primarily to play games, rather than learn, so it's better to expose them to teachers who teach.
	www.linux.com /articles/57760 (1403 words)

	An interview with cyber-skeptic: Cliff Stoll. (computer expert)(includes related article)(Interview) - HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cliff Stoll believes that the Internet is not as beneficial as its supporters would have others believe.
		Stoll grips the rope with all of his might, but the incredible blast of hot media air finally wrests it free.
		Stoll's version of where the Information Superhighway is taking us, and at what cost, is entertainingly packaged in his 1995 book "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway." It is a conversational and witty meditation on what Stoll believes are powerful and dangerous Internet myths...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18515699.html (4350 words)

	John Kador - Freelance Author, Speech Writer, Business Communications
		Cliff Stoll is a lunatic in the sanest sense of the word.
		To Clifford Stoll, the scientist who tracked the computer spy over a three-year period and wrote a best-selling book about it, this piece of information is very much a minor detail.
		It took three years for Stoll to prove that a spy was using the computer as a launching pad through Internet to hack at hundreds of military, industrial, and academic computers in search of secrets for the KGB.
	www.jkador.com /4.htm (1676 words)

	THE CUCKOO’S EGG
		Cliff Stoll had been astronomer designing telescope optics before he was transferred to the computer labs in Lawrence Berkeley.
		Cliff Stoll urged for the assistance of NSA, FBI and CIA, however he was not able to get a concrete support.
		Stoll managed to keep in touch with the important figures in the agencies that were eager to help him.
	www.angelfire.com /falcon/is3001zkizilkaya/bookreview.htm (1398 words)

	The Cuckoo's Egg
		Stoll first became aware of the hacker's presence when he discovered a 75 cent accounting error in the Unix system he was administering.
		Stoll provides all the glorious detail of the agencies involved in the case, what their role was, what their response was to the intrusions, and what their actions were.
		Stoll explains what traces took place, how long they took to perform, and what the stumbling blocks were in catching the hacker.
	www.streettech.com /bcp/BCPgraf/StreetTech/cuckoo.htm (857 words)

	Clifford Stoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 1960's and 70's, Stoll was assistant chief engineer [1] at WBFO,[2], a public radio station in Buffalo, New York.
		Stoll has written three books as well as technology articles in the non-specialist press (e.g., in Scientific American on the Curta mechanical calculator).
		Stoll is an FCC licensed amateur radio operator, callsign K7TA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifford_Stoll (328 words)

	INLS187 Media Analysis (Richard Spinks)
		In 1986 Cliff Stoll is an astronomer at the Keck Observatory at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab in Berkeley, California.
		Like pulling the thread of a sweater, Stoll begins to unravel what becomes an increasingly complex trail left by a hacker who's used the lab's system to access a myriad of other systems, the vast majority of which are military systems containing classified and unclassified data on topics like missile defense systems.
		Stoll takes the time to explain the technical details in plain language as necessary, layering only as much detail as is required to help the reader appreciate the plot point of the moment.
	www.ils.unc.edu /~spinr/inls187/BookReview.html (788 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Media Circus
		If Cliff Stoll didn't choose to speak from his Oakland, California home, with its fluffy rugs, interesting wall decorations and oh-so-sunny, oh-so-woodsy backyard, I'd be able to take his jejune little observations on the Internet and the world with a grain — well, say a spoonful — of salt.
		Stoll's on the right side of most of these debates — who hasn't been annoyed by the airheaded optimism of Wired magazine and its ilk — but you almost wish he weren't.
		Stoll's "discussion" of the "is government obsolete" issue consisted of him flapping his arms like a chicken — literally — to illustrate the difference between reality and dreamland.
	www.salon.com /media/media961216.html (1105 words)

	Digerati: The Skeptic: Cliff Stoll
		Two years have passed, during which time Cliff has become a father - twice.
		He's the one who stays home and takes care of the babies.
		CLIFF STOLL is an astrophysicist and the author of Silicon Snake Oil (1995) and The Cuckoo's Egg (1989).
	www.edge.org /digerati/stoll (350 words)

	The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll : Booksamillion.com (1416507787, Paperback)
		Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"" (Smithsonian).
		Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system.
		Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?isbn=1416507787 (206 words)

	Michael Sirois' GirlTech Pages--Bio of Clifford Stoll
		Clifford Stoll first came to national prominence in 1989 with the publication of his book, The Cuckoo's Egg, an amazing account of his search across the Internet to catch a German cracker who was breaking into military computers all over the world.
		Stoll is an astronomer by trade, who was “promoted” to Systems Manager at his lab.
		Stoll's idea is that some aspects of the World Wide Web may strip us of some of our humanity...if we let it.
	teachertech.rice.edu /participants/msirois/Bios/stoll.html (441 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Cuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage: Books: Cliff Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This tells of Cliff Stoll's involvement in reconciling a 75 cent bookkeeping discrepancy that led to an intruder who broke into the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in order to break into classified military systems.
		Cliff writes with a 'stream of consciousness' style that used over 350 pages where maybe 86 pages would be used in a more concise style.
		Cliff's comments on an uncaring Federal bureaucracy were echoed in the aftermath of 9/11/2001.
	www.amazon.ca /Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463 (1258 words)

	Archipelago Voices 19 Book 2
		Cliff Stoll has become something of a cult figure in the last few years.
		Stoll was a post-graduate astronomer at Berkeley when his funding ran out.
		Cliff was soon able to watch every character this mysterious hacker typed, and watched with growing horror and fascination as the hacker broke into one computer after another.
	www.cartania.com /archipelago/v19/vc19book2.html (468 words)

	Cliff Stoll tells all
		Henry Stricland and I met Clifford Stoll, author of the best-selling book The Cuckoo's Egg, at the restaurant where he had survived the 1990 San Francisco earthquake.
		Stoll: Oh, the CIA took it very seriously.
		Stoll:> The answer to that is no in two directions.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue137/144_Cliff_Stoll_tells_al.php (687 words)

	The Cuckoo's Egg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I must say I didn't believe Cliff when he described himself "growing up" and becoming an adult as he takes responsibility for the free world of computing, as he hobnobs with "shadow government agencies" that he said he'd never do.
		I think Cliff Stoll was lucky to be in a position where he could log and track the hackers.
		I suppose because he was an astronomer at Berkeley, Cliff Stoll's becoming an expert in security issues would be kind of a stretch--and I suppose that was probably the point he was trying to make.
	home.insightbb.com /~bookreaderstraverse/cuckoos_egg.htm (492 words)

	Agylen » Cliff Stoll and the speed of light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Judging from the pictures, he looks like the quintessential mad scientist, but you had to be there to hear and watch him perform live to realize how really mad he is.
		He said that the velocity at which the dart was expelled had no effect on where (and whether) the monkey would be hit.
		I am curator of computer Museum Brazil, Cliff is a friend mine since 1999, he was been here in my country to get a old manual of friden.
	agylen.com /2006/10/12/cliff-stoll-and-the-speed-of-light (451 words)

	UPSIDE.COM: Digerati
		One of a large and varied group of weekend guests, Cliff was sitting in front of my computer in the study, typing like a man possessed, on a beautiful, sunny June afternoon.
		"Cliff is often given short shrift because he is acting as a very spontaneous critic of the Net hype," says Mike Godwin, counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco and Cliff's close friend.
		Cliff walked outside with me, away from the sea of digital information in which he was drowning.
	www.capps-assoc.com /articles.html (1950 words)

	Sep 25,1996 Cliff Stoll A Skeptical View of Computing
		Although best known for his academy award winning films, Clifford Stoll is also famous for his recent address at the United Nations, his gold medals from last summer's Olympics, and his fourth quarter Superbowl touchdown pass.
		Stoll has published extensively on the thermodynamics of quantized electromagnetic relativity and his best selling books have been translated into twenty seven languages.
		Professor Stoll's negotiations were credited with releasing several hostages and he was the first to apply Markov-chain models to global circulation, resulting in vastly more accurate climatic predictions.
	www.stanford.edu /class/ee380/9697fall/node1.html (733 words)

	Clifford Stoll at AllExperts
		Clifford Stoll (or Cliff Stoll) is an astronomer, computer systems administrator, and author.
		Stoll has written three books as well as technology articles in the non-specialist press (e.g., in Scientific American on the Curta mechanical calculator).
		Stoll's book was later chronicled in an episode of WGBH's NOVA entitled "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" which aired on PBS stations in 1990.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cl/clifford_stoll.htm (296 words)

	Computer and Internet Security Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stoll was an astronomy professor at Berkley in the 80's.
		Stoll exposes many of the techniques that the hackers used to gain entrance into various systems.
		There is a page about Stoll at Cliff Stoll resources.
	www.cgmsystems.com /Resources/security.htm (995 words)

	Softpanorama 91a (vol.9, No.2) Computer Humor/Review of The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
		Cliff Stoll, an astronomer turned UNIX system administrator, (this kind of disaster happens with astronomers quite often nowadays) works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
		Cliff hooked up his computer, so that every time the hacker logged on, his beeper would ring.
		Cliff had no choice but to follow their instructions.
	www.softpanorama.org /Bookshelf/Reviews/cuckoo_egg.shtml (857 words)

	Amazon.com: Silicon Snake Oil: Books: Cliff Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Clifford Stoll wrote the highly-entertaining and engaging "Cuckoo's Egg," about his successful efforts to track down the person (or persons) who have hacked in to his computer network.
		When Cliff Stoll, the brilliant man who caught the top East German electronic criminal, speaks on the failures of our cyber-culture, we must listen carefully.
		Stoll is a high- tech wizard who knows the Silicon Valley from inside.
	amazon.com /Silicon-Snake-Oil-Cliff-Stoll/dp/.../0330344420 (2436 words)

	Remove the computers from the classroom, says Cliff Stoll \| Brian Reilly’s other weblog
		I remember Cliff Stoll when he was just the hyper guy at BMUG meetings in Berkeley.
		Electronic media are emphasized at the expense of the written word.” I don’t know which classrooms Cliff has been visiting, but in my experience most of them have so few computers that there is no way that computer screens are the center of attention.
		Cliff concludes by saying that “what was once an exciting novelty in education has become a distraction from learning,” which doesn’t match my observations in schools.
	brian.reillyville.com /?p=581 (346 words)

	Powell's Books - The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by
		Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy — and plunged into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counterintelligence agents.
		Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing.
		Stoll is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0743411463-0 (576 words)

	essays research papers -- A Book report on The Cuckoo?s Egg by Cliff Stoll - A Cuckoo?s Fledgling
		Not until a bully invaded, did another bastion of delayed-maturity, Cliff Stoll, find that “Big Bother” was not eager, or perhaps unable, to repel the invader on his behalf.
		This led Cliff to take responsibility and stand up to his assailant, causing a transformation throughout many facets of his life.
		The Cuckoo’s Egg is the story of Cliff Stoll’s maturation into an adult, mirrored by the loss of innocence and youthful-trusting-openness taking place in the network community at the time, catalyzed by a hacker halfway around the world, and necessitated by a nonchalant attitude among the governmental agencies supposed to be responsible for computer security.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=49332 (1711 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Silicon Snake Oil: Books: Cliff Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Reading the book in 2003, I'm disappointed how often Cliff went on-and-on about his low-speed modem connection to the net - perhaps this is where Clifford differs from the likes of Gates or Jobs - he can't see into the future.
		Sure there are some very valid comments made by Stoll about the impact of the net on things like education, but he fails time and again to see the opportunity afforded by the technology.
		Stoll looks at our network as it is, not as it's promised to be.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Silicon-Snake-Oil-Cliff-Stoll/dp/0330344420 (1093 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Swaine's Flames \| July 22, 2001
		On this radio program, Stoll was presenting some of the arguments he makes in the book.
		Cliff Stoll is the author of The Cuckoo's Egg, a wonderfully engaging, true-life detective story about his success in uncovering a ring of net-cracking spies.
		Stoll: "...unlike a chisel, drill, or shovel, the computer demands rote memorization of nonobvious rules.
	www.ddj.com /184409620 (868 words)

	Amazon.com: Silicon Snake Oil: Books: Cliff Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Computer expert Stoll presents a backlash account of the Internet, questioning whether its potential influence is as far-reaching and positive as supporters claim.
		Clifford Stoll wrote the highly-entertaining and engaging "Cuckoo's Egg," about his successful efforts to track down the person (or persons) who have hacked in to his computer network.
		Stoll is a high- tech wizard who knows the Silicon Valley from inside.
	www.amazon.com /Silicon-Snake-Oil-Cliff-Stoll/dp/0330344420 (2567 words)

	The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
		Cliff Stoll experienced this first-hand and he describes his exploits of tracking one of the early hackers who set the stage for computer espionage in The Cuckoo’s Egg.
		In Stoll’s effort to make the book read like a novel, he goes a bit overboard with the minutiae of his personal life (i.e., a recipe for chocolate chip cookies as a footnote), but it does allow the reader to feel the full effect of his ordeal.
		Stoll could have left out the various references to his astrophysical background, but I’m sure he was just “tooting his own horn.” There were also several minor spelling and grammatical errors which caught my eye (blame the editor, right?).
	www.angelfire.com /falcon/is3001smcullen/bookreview.html (1231 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 9: Issue 30
		It is astrophysicist-turned-systems-manager Cliff Stoll's first week on the job at a lab in Berkeley, California.
		The error turns up, and he tries to figure out why, partly as an exercise in learning about the computer system he's going to be working with.
		Stoll's girlfriend, Martha, a law student, seems like one smart and delightful cookie, and she puts up with his obsession pretty well.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/9.30.html (1098 words)

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