Lessons learned from The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (No Spoiler)
This 80's book of espionage story still brings attention to modern cybersecurity professionals, and remains surprisingly relevant to today’s world. The book is made up of many easy-to-read short to medium-sized chapters, and things start to get really thrilling around chapter 29. I could be biased here! Through my reading of this thriller, I have distilled a couple of interesting lessons that I felt I had to share. While the protagonist (The author himself) exhibits hands-on experience on Linux and programming, he wasn't an IT specialist by profession, so you will come across some unusual naming like "one-way trap-door software" to refer to hashing algorithm used to store passwords on Unix system. Being a non-fiction book, this is royally a true reference for the history of technology. I learned that treating cancer tumors at the cellular level using atomic particles was already operational during the 80's, and the intercontinental fiber optic cable was also laid...