Cuckoo's
Egg
Well, I finally got around to sitting down with
this book; it's an excellent read so far, although it's not
something I could give to a non-technical friend to enjoy.
The writing drew me in quickly, mainly because of the focus;
that's my job, and it's fun reading about someone else's
experiences. The scary thing is that I could actually
imagine those old DECwriters chugging out pages of copy,
because we had a ton of those monsters lying around while I
was at University. The
only part I can't really identify with is the compulsive
fear the author seemed to have dealing with the NSA, CIA,
and assorted other "spooks" (growing up in Canada, I had
heard of them, but never had to really consider their
implications; the closest thing we had was CSIS, and you never
heard much about them...).
I haven't finished the book just yet, but I've
enjoyed it thus far. It presents a refreshingly honest look
at how intrusion analysis really works, rather than how
you'd like it to
work, without explaining away or talking around places
where he made errors in judgement, and thus enhancing it's
value to the reader. I'll have to add it to Canonical Tomes,
methinks.