The KGB, the Computer and Me

The KGB, the Computer and Me

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 3, 1990

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

78%

Original Title

The KGB, the Computer and Me

Director

Robin Bates

Description

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.