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	Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stoll made the decision to wiretap and observe the hacker rather than repair the security hole in his computer system which allowed the hacker to enter in the first place.
		Stoll’s rationale for allowing the hacker to use his system so that he could be observed were twofold: educational and remedial.
		Stoll was not unaware of some of the implications of his ethical decisions.
	csethics.uis.edu /dolce/teachAids/SDenenbergCaseStudies.html (1017 words)

	SNAKES, SNAKE OIL SALESMEN AND SNAKE CHARMERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stoll to pontificate as if he has spent some serious time recently observing students and teachers in classrooms that are using technology or even thinking about these significant educational issues he raises when he has no acknowledged expertise in this area and obviously very limited grasp of critical issues.
		Stoll who rail against educational technology as a waste of money need to spend some serious time in an actual classroom with pioneer teachers and students who are using new technologies in new and exciting ways.
		Stoll has apparently not witnessed firsthand the power of new technology to create new stimulating and engaging learning environments, but many educators have and are interested in providing this technology to more learners.
	www.netteach.com /news/snake.html (2007 words)

	A Snake, Some Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stoll not only gripes about the glitz on the Net, but then he continues to groan about the limitations of ASCII text.
		Stoll even claims that computers are not necessary for most college studies.
		And that is what Stoll is really missing in his book: an understanding that the real world now includes online universes and computer games.
	www.ibiblio.org /cmc/mag/1995/sep/mcgreal.html (834 words)

	Reviewed by Eli T. Vestich
		Stoll is humbled when he attempts to expedite the astronomers efforts by plugging data into his laptop, when he realizes that due to the nature of the problem, his number crunching machine is worthless.
		Clifford Stoll presents an argument that is recurring in the scholarly literature of technology education.
		Stoll speaks of a teenage computer wizard in Berkeley who began using a computer when he was three, but can’t hold a normal conversation with an adult.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JTE/jte-v9n1/vestich.html (1450 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.
	jkador.com /4.htm (1676 words)

	Clifford Stoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clifford Stoll (or Cliff Stoll) is an astronomer, computer systems administrator, and author.
		Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, ISBN 0743411463, 1995.
		The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, Clifford Stoll, 1996, ISBN 0385419945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifford_Stoll (239 words)

	Silicon Snake Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clifford Stoll is a traitor, the Benedict Arnold of the Internet Revolution, or so he might be described by some visionaries of the Information Superhighway.
		Clifford Stoll's book is entertaining and thought-provoking, though it would have been stronger had it been better organized.
		Stoll feels that gullible Americans have been sold a magic, cure-all elixir that is figuratively nothing more than the con man's snake oil.
	cla.uconn.edu /reviews/snakeoil.html (749 words)

	The Net Net: Web Schmeb
		Stoll's frustration with the contradictions of the computer world becomes a palpable thing: systems which are supposed to make it faster and more efficient to work bog people down in their own intricacies; networks which are meant to encourage communication generate flaming and promote slacking off.
		Stoll brings the same frustrating combination of acuteness and dimness to his critique of the net.
		Stoll gives us a long diatribe about the worthlessness, chaos and vapidity of the information available on the net, as well as mentioning several times the shallowness that email has brought to human relationships.
	www.thenetnet.com /schmeb/schmeb6.html (962 words)

	High Tech Heretic
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		Stoll seems to know what is happening without engaging in scholarship or research.
		Stoll evidently misses the irony that he has joined the cult of celebrity "chit chat" that substitutes opinion for knowledge.
	www.fno.org /nov99/review.html (963 words)

	NewsHour Online: Computers in classrooms
		STOLL: To me, the, the promise of computers in education is, hey, it makes learning fun, it's wonderful, kids love the stuff, parents want it to happen.
		STOLL: They're neat gadgetry that are useful for plugging in to, in to pick up sort of encyclopedic knowledge, the kind of thing that you might open up an encyclopedia for.
		STOLL: And if that's your conception of, of an education, that is to say pour facts into somebody's mind, well, you know, I guess it's kind of useful, but to me, how much more exciting the real world is than anything that come across the--a cathode ray tube.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/cyberspace_12-27b.html (1752 words)

	Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll - A Book Review by Scott London
		Clifford Stoll believes that too little attention has been given to the bogus claims and hidden costs of new information technologies.
		Each of these ideas, Stoll writes, is based on either speculation or "a technocratic belief that computers and networks will make a better society." "It ain't necessarily so," he says.
		Stoll's commentary is not especially interesting or original and his goofy prose doesn't make up for the overall shortcomings of his argument.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/stoll.html (238 words)

	INLS 187 - Book Review - Matthew Bachtell
		Stoll alludes to the fact that in order for the cracker to obtain superuser privileges on his network at Lawrence Berkeley Labs at the campus of the University of California at Berkeley he needs to trick the UNIX system into hatching his program.
		While this association is a bit of a stretch I like the mental image of Stoll racing to the Berkeley lab on his bike to watch the cracker whenever he appeared just like the fooled parent of a young cuckoo.
		Stoll only notices the cracker because he failed to cover up a 75 cent charge in the accounting software that is charged to the username "Hunter".
	www.unc.edu /~bachtell/inls187/assignment1.html (888 words)

	JIME: Book Review: "Silicon Snake Oil" (Stoll)
		Stoll's basic mode of argument throughout the book is to compare two functionally-related technologies–one computational (e.g., email) and one less so (e.g., the U.S. postal service), and to point out several positive aspects of the latter that are missing in the former.
		The other thing that is strange about Stoll's use of this type of argument is his shifting view of what counts as "technology" versus "real life", or as "authentic" versus "inauthentic." This causes some oddly (and presumably unintentionally) ironic passages: Stoll mentions "the warmth of a voice across the telephone line" [p.
		And Stoll's description of the impact of computer databases on the practice of scientific research–he is an astronomer by profession–is especially useful; when he writes about the limitations of computer models, he's clearly drawing on a long professional history of reflection on the subject.
	www-jime.open.ac.uk /book-reviews/stoll.html (1087 words)

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		Stoll's work is irresponsible because his image of the world reminds us of a simpler time, one where everything sprang from either the forces of light or of darkness.
		Stoll's depiction of hackers as emerging from the slime of some primordial ethical muck for engaging in behaviors that he himself relishes is bothersome.
		Stoll's lack of reflection on the SOCIAL MEANING and significance of the computer underground and his identification of ALL hacking activity with those of the dramatic and quite rare example of an alleged spy both distorts the nature of all computer underground activity and grossly over-estimates its danger.
	pages.ripco.com /download/info/CuD/cud1.06 (3484 words)

	Union College
		Clifford Stoll became an unexpected computer guru when, in 1986, he found a 75-cent discrepancy in the telephone charges for his laboratory's computer.
		Stoll's sleuthing was the subject of his first book, The Cuckoo's Egg, and propelled him into the spotlight as an expert on computers and hackers.
		Stoll's talk is free and open to the public.
	www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=1799 (201 words)

	Technology Critic Takes On Computers in Schools
		Stoll says these are skills that are easily mastered in a few weeks and hardly require a battery of computers in every classroom from kindergarten through 12th grade.
		Stoll reserves some of his sharpest barbs for the infatuation with technology that he says is undermining science and math education.
		Stoll argues that students raised on video games and television need less exposure to image-filled screens, not more, if they are to be engaged in the tough task of meaningful learning.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/tech/00/04/cyber/education/05education.html (984 words)

	ERCB: The Cuckoo's Egg
		Markus Hess, the hacker Stoll was tracking, exploited a variety of simple loopholes in computer security systems to break into machines belonging to both the military and to civilian defense contractors through the Internet, a network created by the US government which links thousands of academic, industrial, and (unclassified) military computers.
		Stoll's story shows the inadequacy of present legislation when confronted with crimes like these, crimes in which the perpetrator and the victim may be six thousand miles apart, and no physical evidence may remain after the crime.
		Stoll is very much a product of that laid-back pioneering society, something which his writing style unfortunately reflects.
	www.ercb.com /brief/brief.0059.html (808 words)

	Clifford_Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As one who loves computers as much as he disdains the inflated promises made on their behalf, Stoll has become a P. O’Rourke of the computer age, focussing his droll wit and penetrating views on everything from why computers have to be so darned ‘ugly’ to the cultural aftershocks of living in a high-tech society.
		Stoll spent a year stalking an elusive, methodical hacker who was using numerous techniques – from simply guessing passwords, to exploiting software bugs, to setting up bogus “Cuckoo’s Egg” programs – to access unauthorized American computer files.
		Told as only Stoll could describe the events, it is the first and only book to lead readers into, through and back out of the esoteric, shadowy world of computer espionage, which was without question the single most important security issue of the 1990s.
	voc.ed.psu.edu /pactec/2002/stoll.html (487 words)

	The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll - read book review
		Stoll is an astrophysicist turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, but becomes a one-man security force tracking down a computer cracker when he discovers a 75 cent accounting error.
		Stoll is also the same person who was doing "thoughts" at the end of The Site TV magazine which used to be on MSNBC.
		Clifford Stoll holds a Ph.D in Astronomy from the University of Arizona.
	mostlyfiction.com /adventure/stoll.htm (228 words)

	THE CYBER WASTELAND: A TALK WITH CLIFFORD STOLL
		Stoll's book was considered important because it was an attack from inside the technocracy -- the astronomer had been an Internet user since 1972 and had also carved out a career as a computer-security expert.
		Stoll: My book doesn't talk about the Web, which is a serious problem, considering I wrote it in 1993, 1994, and 1995, and it came out in early 1995.
		Stoll: I'd write about the fraudulent nature of computers in schools, the way our libraries are being devastated by computers, the overpromotion of computers in society at large.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/apr1998/nf80421d.htm (1345 words)

	Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clifford Stoll gained worldwide attention as a cyberspace sleuth when he wrote his bestselling book, The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, the page-turning true story of how he caught a ring of hackers who stole secrets from military computer systems and sold them to the KGB.
		Clifford Stoll is a commentator for MSNBC and an astronomer at the University of California Berkeley.
		Stoll is also the author of two engaging and counter-intuitive critiques of technology’s role in culture written in his trademark quiet and folksy style full of droll wit and penetrating insights.
	www.leighbureau.com /speaker.asp?id=160 (375 words)

	Educators Network - Book Reviews
		Stoll begins his attack with the position of parents, the business community, teachers and school districts that think that more computers mean better education.
		Stoll contends that while computer skills are important job knowledge, they are, in no way, evidence that "advanced" education has taken place.
		Stoll has my attention - aside from the fact that his new book is an often funny and acerbic look at the new computer priesthood.
	www.educatorsnet.com /bookreviews/messages/2/35.html?943848841 (1402 words)

	Review of Clifford Stoll’s High-Tech Heretic
		Upon starting to read Clifford Stoll’s High Tech Heretic, I was struck by how maddening the book was to me. I couldn’t read more than a chapter or so before I was so worked up that I needed to take a break from it for a while.
		Stoll says that “Technology promises shortcuts to higher grades and painless learning,” an idea that is probably not too far from the truth.
		Stoll also has an apparent lack of faith in the changing educational community of the world.
	www.msu.edu /user/schopie1/cep901b/stollw1.html (1451 words)

	Clifford Stoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in 1980.
		In his 1995 book, Silicon Snake Oil, Stoll called the possibility of e-commerce "baloney." He now sells Klein bottles on the Web.
		High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian, Clifford Stoll, 2000, ISBN 0385489765.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cliff_Stoll (239 words)

	Clifford Stoll to Speak at UW-Eau Claire
		Stoll's presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a reception.
		Stoll found that this hacker was roaming through supposedly secure systems, many of them related to military technology, and copying data.
		Stoll continued his hunt on his own time and finally convinced federal authorities that the intruder presented a viable national security threat.
	www.uwec.edu /newsbureau/release/past/2000/00-02/021600stoll.html (832 words)

	Washington Week . Student Voices \| PBS
		Stoll said after 20 years, he is not sure if the technology is living up to the bright future it once held.
		Stoll predicts that in the future many jobs will not have computers and won't want them.
		Stoll said the Internet and computers are wonderful tools, but need to be used in the right way.
	www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/voices/200302/0206internet.html (609 words)

	Special Circumstances: The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stoll is ambivalent between his condemnation of the crackers and whether perhaps his liberal ideals are being strained by collaborating with the CIA.
		Stoll's argument against the crackers eventually settles on the fact that the crackers are corrupting the fragile trust on which the networks are based on making these protocols increasingly less open in the future.
		It is surprising how good-natured Clifford Stoll is as he chronicles how he tracked down the people responsible for cracking into the Lawrence Berkeley Lab computers in the mid-80s.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000052.html (522 words)

	Stoll, <I>Silicon Snake Oil</I> (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clifford Stoll "wave[s] a yellow flag" in response to the ever-growing hype about the information superhighway in his new book, Silicon Snake Oil.
		Stoll, owner of "five computers and no car," resists taking the position of the anti-technological Luddite in his critique of the Net.
		Stoll believes that online communication is unrealistically being touted as a cure-all, similar to the snake oil treatments once sold as medicine by quack doctors.
	mh.cla.umn.edu /ebibks3.html (401 words)

	Clifford Stoll: Silicon Snake Oil
		Clifford Stoll introduced himself as an author some years ago with his fact-based book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (title spelled "Das Kuckucksei" in german).
		Nevertheless, I think Stoll is right: Everybody who has used the internet has to admit that it still has many faults and that the expectations, stirred up everywhere, in no way are justified.
		Although it does not have a plot like "The Cuckoo's Egg", countless anecdotes from Stolls life make "Silicon Snake Oil" an amusing and interesting book for everybody interested in watching one of today's most discussed topics from a different perspective.
	www.gebonn.de /projekte/buecher/rez/stoll/wuest_en.htm (347 words)

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