The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The lab had only five Tymnet lines, making it easier for Cliff to monitor everyone using five computers, teletypes, and printers. The team investigates the activities of an impersonator suspected of being Seventek.Ĭliff connects multiple computers to Tymnet, a fiber-optic cable network that spans major cities to ensure faster and interference-free connections. Seventek is a computer expert who created programs for the Berkeley UNIX system and was in England at the time. During the investigation, they discover that a computer expert named “Seventek” is in town, and the lab starts to suspect that he might be a hacker. He was reassigned to the computer lab after his grant expired, rather than being laid off.Ĭliff’s colleague, Wayne Graves, asked him to fix a 75-cent glitch in the accounting system soon after he became the master of the mainframe. Cliff, a former astronomer turned mainframe specialist, worked at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. ![]()
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