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Why I Want To Read The Cuckoo's Egg

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I think that anyone who is interested in old computers and how they work or people who like to read mystery novels would like to read this book. People who don’t really care about the programming on their computer, or don’t really like mysteries shouldn’t read the book The Cuckoo’s Egg. First, a summary. In the Non - fiction novel, The Cuckoo’s Egg, Cliff Stoll, an astronomer living off of grant money, is transferred down to the computing lab when his grant money runs out. His task: to keep the computers running smoothly. When he is asked to find why there is a 75 cent error payment. Stoll then finds a hacker in their system and throughout the book, he tracks the hacker’s every move as he talks to people from the CIA, FBI, DOE (Department of Energy), and the NSA (National Security Agency). As the book progresses it and the characters explain different parts of the computers. I think that people who like to learn about computers and how they work would enjoy reading this book because the characters and narrator talk about computers and how some things work. For example, on page 45, Cliff Stoll describes how password encryption works. He talks about how when someone types in a password the computer encrypts the typed password and compares …show more content…

I think this because there really is not much action, most of the time the main character is talking to people over the phone or watching what the hacker is doing. For example, the book shows examples of the hackers screen on pages 30, 45, 55, 75, 76, 87, 88, 118, 124, 125, 221, 222, 223, 228, 229, 239, 264, 265, 266, 267, and 268. Also, on page 171, it says,” As of December 6, the hacker had connected to us one - hundred - thirty - five times.” This shows that people who are looking for action are not really going to find it in this book, as evidence shows the main character mainly is tracking a hacker through

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