Kukułcze jajo
Ekscytujące łowy na nieuchwytnego hackera
Author: Clifford Stoll
I’ve read it in Polish, so I kept polish picture.
This book had a huge impact on how I perceive IT security. It was the way that shaped my fascination by Unix systems and probably impacted some of my decisions about my future 😉
It’s a fascinating lecture on the battle between “sys admin” (actually an astronomer and kinda random guy, but with a skill) and a hacker. Cold war times. Quite “analog” IT systems, printers as terminals, etc. A time machine to the beginnings of networks and Internet. It was at a time when there was no encryption on services. Computers were powerful machines taking whole rooms and you could work with them only via terminal. A different world, but that’s how it all started.
This book reminded me, when I was managing a mail server in my first job and part of it was to “fight the SPAM”. It’s this epic “sys-admin” vs “they” (whoever they are) battle. Ah, that was a time 😃
I recommend it to all System Administrators and Security Engineers.