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What (who) is The Cuckoo's Egg - definition

BOOK BY CLIFFORD STOLL ABOUT THE KGB HACK IN THE 1980S; A GROUP OF WEST GERMAN HACKERS STOLE INFORMATION FOR THE KGB IN THE WEST, WHICH WAS DISCOVERED BY STOLL
The Cuckoos Egg; The Cuckoo's Egg; The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. A 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on his system. The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB. ["The Cuckoo's Egg", Clifford Stoll, London: Bodley Head, 1990, ISBN 0-370-31433-6, ISBN 0-671-72688-9]. [FTP?] (1994-11-15)
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Cuckoo's egg (disambiguation)
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FILE FORMAT
Egg file; .EGG; Egg format; Egg file format; Egg archive; Alzip egg; EGG (file compression); .egg
The EGG file format is a compressed archive file format that supports Unicode and intelligent compression algorithms. EGG format is created by ESTsoft and was first applied in their file compression software ALZip.

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The Cuckoo's Egg (book)

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor Cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to malware.