[ale] LUG at GT Meeting - 2010.01.27 - "The KGB, The Computer, And Me"

[Ryan Curtin]

The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents

"The KGB, The Computer, And Me"
  a movie presentation

Jan. 27th, 2010, 7:00 PM
College of Computing Building, room 52

This week, we will be watching a Linux-related movie (or PBS special as it is)
instead of having a presentation. The IMDB plot summary is shown below:

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, as is told in his best-selling book – The Cuckoo’s Egg:
Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (1989). Stoll has become a
celebrity for being, as he terms himself, “a computer contrarian.”

The special is 58 minutes long.

Upcoming presentations and events:

  - 2010.02.03:  The Z Shell (zsh)
  - 2010.02.06:  Installfest 44
  - 2010.02.10:  Introduction To Linux
  - 2010.02.17:  LLVM

Hope to see you there!

-- 
Ryan Curtin       | "The enemy cannot press a button... if you have
ryan at igglybob.com | disabled his hand." - Sgt. Zim