| THE CUCKOO'S EGG Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage Clifford Stoll New York: Doubleday, October 1989 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-385-24946-0 | ||||
| ISBN 0-385-24946-2 | 326pp. | HC/GSI | $19.95 | |
| Page 4: | "Each of these one thousand accounts were tallied daily..." |
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| Page 6: | "While writing this first small triumph into the pages of my notebook, Martha, my sweetheart, stopped by and we celebrated with late-night cappuccinos at Berkeley's Cafe Roma." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "While I was writing". |
| Page 7: | "Dockmaster's electronic mail message was a curiosity, and Dave passed it to Wayne, attaching a question, 'Who's Dockmaster?' Wayne forwarded it to me with his guess—'Probably some bank.' Eventually, Wayne bounced the message to me. I guessed Dockmaster was..." |
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| Page 23: | "When a researcher in Stonybrook, New York, wanted to connect to our computer..." |
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| Page 54: | "The hacker must know the sysops's name." |
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| Page 54: | "Sure enough, looking back to other printouts, he stayed around only when no operators were around." |
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| Page 65: | "You know, much as I complained about bailiwicks..." |
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| Page 144: | "One after another, he tried military computers: Army Ballistics Research Lab; U.S. Naval Academy; Naval Research Lab; Air Force Information services Group; and places with bizarre acronyms likeWWMCCS and Cincusnaveur. (Cincus? Or was it Circus? I never found out.)" |
| He should have run it by Maggie Morley (see page 99.) She would have told him it stands for Commander in Charge, U.S. Naval forces Europe (or similar.) |
| Page 147: | "So after months of tracking, the hacker's coming from Europe." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "we found the hacker's coming". |
| Page 187: | "You can crowd only so many satellites over Equador." |
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| Page 197: | "The Bevatron can accelerate helium ions to a fraction of the speed of light..." |
| Missing word: S/B "to within a fraction". |
| Page 225: | "It's just runs against military policy." |
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| Page 230: | "Grant Kerr, of the Hill Air Force Base in Utah, phoned." |
| Usage: S/B "Hill Air Force Base". You never need an article when mentioning a specific place name. No one says "I loved that show 'WKRP in the Cincinnati'." |
| Page 277: | "He calls Germany. Like the old double play: Tinker to Evers to Chance." |
| Uh, Cliff — that was a triple play. |
| Page 277: | "He combed through our system, groping for what he knew would be was a hidden program that would be his northwestern passage to military computers everywhere." |
| Usage: S/B "Northwest passage". |
| Page 299: | "Also the KGB's wish list was SDI data." |
| Missing word: S/B "Also on the KGB's wish list". |
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