Crew
RB
Robin Bates
Writer
RB
Robin Bates
Producer
CS
Clifford Stoll
Writer
KW
Kathy White
Producer
RB
Robin Bates
Director
Cast
CS
Clifford Stoll
Narrator
The KGB, the Computer and Me
199056m7.9 (9)
Documentary
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.
