The Cuckoo's Egg

Clifford Stoll. Doubleday. Copyright © 1989. ISBN 0-385-24946-2.

Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the Chaos Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between ‘hacker' and ‘cracker'. Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think.

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: Bibliography.