EPISODE · Dec 23, 2019 · 16 MIN
Meet The Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the bottom of a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in the lab’s computer network, which was rented out to remote users by the minute. Stoll, 36, investigated the source of that minuscule anomaly, pulling on it like a loose thread until it led to a shocking culprit: a hacker in the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the bottom of a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in the lab’s computer network, which was rented out to remote users by the minute. Stoll, 36, investigated the source of that minuscule anomaly, pulling on it like a loose thread until it led to a shocking culprit: a hacker in the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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