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How An Astronomer Discovered A Hacker Spy Ring.

Computer expert Clifford Stoll. When Stoll discovered a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in his work as systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he thought the intruder was a student prankster. But after tracking the hacker for almost a year, Stoll discovered an international spy ring, operating out of West Germany, which sold the data it collected to the Soviets. This is the subject of his book "The Cuckoo's Egg".

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Other segments from the episode on October 11, 1989

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 11, 1989: Interview with Armistead Maupin; Review of Kurt Weill's album "The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken"; Interview with Clifford Stoll; Review of the book "The…

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