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American astronomer, author and teacher
Clifford Stoll
Born
Clifford Paul Stoll Jr.
(1950-06-04) June 4, 1950 (age 73)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Nationality
American
Other names
Cliff
Alma mater
SUNY Buffalo (BS) University of Arizona (PhD)
Call sign
K7TA (previously WN2PSX) [1][2]
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Thesis
Polarimetry of Jupiter at large phase angles(1980)
Doctoral advisor
Martin Tomasko
Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher.
He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.
Stoll has written three books as well as articles in the non-specialist press (e.g., in Scientific American) on the Curta mechanical calculator and the slide rule, and is a frequent contributor to the mathematics YouTube channel Numberphile.
^"K7TA".
^"The Klein Bottle Guy (with Cliff Stoll) - Numberphile Podcast". YouTube.
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the Computer Revolution". Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 0-385-19195-2. CliffordStoll (1989). The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer...
hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell. CliffordStoll, author of The Cuckoo’s Egg, wrote that "Rumors have it that [Morris]...
also advanced by the title "Stalking the Wily Hacker", an article by CliffordStoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM. Later that year...
of hackers. Astronomer CliffordStoll plays a pivotal role in tracking down hacker Markus Hess, events later covered in Stoll's 1990 book The Cuckoo's...
amateurs such as Markus Hess who hacked for the KGB, as recounted by CliffordStoll in The Cuckoo's Egg. Attackers motivations can vary for all types of...
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access to nodes on DECnet networks. This issue was also described by CliffordStoll in The Cuckoo's Egg as a means by which Markus Hess gained unauthorized...
the best known of these is astronomer and computer security expert CliffordStoll. The curriculum has been revamped and expanded continuously over the...
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