That sounds really interesting. I think there'd be a lot of demand for your spare copy, however it's copiously & cheaply available from Amazon's second-hand section. You need to search for "Cookoo's Egg" with the apostrophe. HTH, Stroller. On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:25 pm, Lewis, Benjamin (Ben) wrote: > > Cliff Stoll is a sysadmin at Berkely who tracked down a German cracker > working for the KGB. The "Cuckoos Egg" is a book he wrote about the > case. It's a great story (and all true). One of the clues that leads > to the guy is that he keeps using ps -ef on BSD based systems, this > makes Stoll believe the intruder is on the east coast of the US (where > thanks to AT&T, Sys V machines were at the time predominant). I have a > spare copy but I think thats a bit too far to send. It's worth > checking out, a couple of people I've spoken to here read it at > university as part of their network security classes.