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The Cuckoo's Egg
A 75-cent accounting error sparks a full-blown manhunt through the early wild west of computer networks. What starts as a tiny blip in the system leads Cliff Stoll, an astronomer-turned-sysadmin, down a rabbit hole of international espionage, hacker cat-and-mouse games, and bureaucratic dead ends. This isn’t your usual spy thriller—it’s the real, messy birth of cybersecurity as we know it.
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