Invisible Intruders
Command Line Heroes
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A Brief History of Computer Network Security
In 19 86, an excitable astronomer named cliff stole was looking for work. While waiting for an astronomy job, he found himself agig as a system administrator at the lawrence berkeley lab in california. He'd helped them run a dozen main frames that scientists logged in to use. For the first time ever, something didn't add up. Boss had found that 75 cents were missing. Katy hafner is a journalist and author who's been writing about technology and hackers since the eighties.
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