I can pick up and read Cuckoo's Egg anytime and re-read it and every time it is just as exciting. If you haven't read it, you should.<p>Also, the NOVA documentary is available on YouTube, viz.:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1swbLfrP6g" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1swbLfrP6g</a><p>Worth watching (but read the book first!)
The Cuckoo's Egg was the first real computer book I read. I went home and tried Unix commands on my DOS 6.21 286.<p>I read it years later - this time understanding what was going a <i>wee</i> bit better. Still a good book.<p>It was and is a great book.<p>The presentation linked is also pretty interesting. To me it has a ring of <i>Psychology of Programming</i>, wherein the same issues are found endemic to the situation for decades and decades.
The Cuckoo's Egg is a fantastic book and definitely worth a read for regardless of forensic interest. It's very well written and a great story.<p>The slide author is one of the most knowledgeable experts on incident response today, his blog[1] is definitely worth a read now and again.<p>If you want to see what large scale operations look like today, the Ghostnet report[2] makes for compelling reading.<p>[1] - <a href="http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/</a><p>[2] - <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/13731776/Tracking-GhostNet-Investigating-a-Cyber-Espionage-Network" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/13731776/Tracking-GhostNet-Investi...</a>
if you haven't read the book, you may not want to look at the slides because it basically spoils the entire thing.<p>if you <i>have</i> read the book, you may be interested in the movie 23 (not the jim carrey movie "the number 23") which tells part of the story from the other side.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)</a>