16 Sep
2002
16 Sep
'02
11:41 a.m.
Please see Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg for a description of tracking an intruder across various PSTN, PSDN and Internet providers. I haven't seen a better description of the process.
And there were, what?, three US ISPs back then? And when Stanford was getting hacked, where was BBN... Answer: right on the Stanford campus, in Stanford buildings! We don't have the same Internet architecture as we had during The Cuckoo's Egg era. -mark