#5 in Technology & IT
The Cuckoo's Egg
8.48.4 / 10
Score out of 10215 ratingsConfidence 59%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
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About the book
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for Markus Hess, a computer hacker who broke into a computer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 215 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 59% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Technology & IT average of 8.1. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 22 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.6 | 193 | 90% |
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