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Cast

Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll

Narrator

Crew

Robin Bates

Robin Bates

Writer

Robin Bates

Robin Bates

Director

Kathy White

Kathy White

Producer

Bill Lattanzi

Bill Lattanzi

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Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll

Writer

Robin Bates

Robin Bates

Producer

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The KGB, the Computer and Me

19907.8 / 1056 min
Documentary

Overview

In 1986, astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when he noticed a 75-cent discrepancy between the charges printed by two accounting programs responsible for charging people for machine use. Intrigued, he deduced that the system was being hacked, and he determined to find the culprit. This is the re-enactment of how he tracked down KGB cracker Markus Hess through the Ethernet to Hannover, Germany.