Stalking the Wily Hacker

Stalking the Wily Hacker

Source: Clifford Stoll

This article tells the story of a hacker who penetrated Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the 1980s. It provides an anecdotal perspective on the use of war dialing and hacking by a German trespasser on our military networks, who slipped through operating system security holes and browsed through sensitive databases.

Keywords: Hacking , History , Technology