THE CUCKOO'S EGG Page 1 of 254 THE CUCKOO'S EGG by Cliff Stoll THE CUCKOO'S EGG Page 2 of 254 Acknowledgments DO YOU SPREAD THE WORD WHEN A COMPUTER HAS A SECURITY HOLE? SOME SAY nothing, fearing that telling people how to mix explosives will encourage them to make bombs. In this book I've explicitly described some of these security problems, realizing that people in black hats are already