The Cuckoo's Egg

It's very funny, entirely true, and taught me a lot.

on HN, 2016

The book reads like a techno-thriller but happened. Full of technical detail, I learnt a lot about UNIX system when I first read the book.

on HN, 2022

I haven't read it recently but anyone that lived experienced technology of the 80s/90s or wants a realistic feel for what it was like should read this.

on HN, 2018

A personal account of one of the first cases of (attempted) military espionage via the internet? A system administrator thwarting intruders with his keys? Government agencies not knowing who's responsible for network-based intruders? Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club spying for the Soviets?

on HN, 2024

For those of you who don't know, it's a story about chasing down a hacker at the dawn of the computing era (mid 80s, AFAIK). It's riveting, and absolutely true.

on HN, 2016

white it's not so much a history of computing as a personal history of a geek astronomer catching a hacker, it represents a lot of early computing culture, and I enjoyed it a lot.

on HN, 2020

The title gives away the premise of the book, but to think - it was all put into motion because of a $0.75 accounting discrepancy.

on HN, 2010

This is also a great read on how to track down a deep problem, going through all of the steps required to figure out where it was coming from. That's on top of it being an entertaining view of early computer networking.

on HN, 2017