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Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.
—Clifford Stoll, Numberphile - Klein Bottles

Description

Cliff Stoll is an astronomer, author, teacher, and computing legend who is well known by his top quality, low volume Klein Bottles some of which are prominently displayed on the set of The Portal. Cliff's company, Acme Klein Bottles, supplies world-class blown glass Klein Bottles to many. It is purportedly operated from a crawlspace underneath his own home with the aid of some kind of robotic forklift.

Contributions to Computer Forensics

As written in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg", after completing the optics design for the Keck Observatory, the need for further physical design expertise would diminish as construction on the observatory would commence. Cliff found himself facing the unemployment office, astronomers being in not as much demand as the concrete for the structure or ground glass for the now fully envisioned optics. Luckily enough, Cliff found himself recycled into a systems administrator at the computing department of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing computer system, he would nearly single-handedly unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, an alleged KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker. Markus Hess would be convicted in 1990.
The access was achieved by backdooring the LOGIN system utility.

Appearances

Cliff has been known to appear on Numberphile
The Cuckoo's Egg has been re-enacted by Cliff and others involved on the public broadcast television program NOVA, which is available on youtube.
Cliff continues to speak about his historic influence on the field of computer forensics at SANS and many other institutions.

Papers

Polarimetry of Jupiter at Large Phase Angles
Communications of the ACM

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-{{quote|Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.|Clifford Stoll, Numberphile - Klein Bottles}}
+{{quote|Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.|Clifford Stoll, [https://youtu.be/AAsICMPwGPY Numberphile - Klein Bottles]}}
-Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher who attained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1980.
+== Description ==
-As written in his 1989 book, "The Cuckoo's Egg", once the grant money employing Cliff as a designer of telescope optics for Keck Observatory dried up, Cliff would find himself saved from the unemployment office, reused as a Systems Administrator back at the computer department at the {{Lawrence Berkeley Lab}}. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing VAX computer system, he would unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, a KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker.
+Cliff Stoll is an astronomer, author, teacher, and computing legend who is well known by his top quality, low volume [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle Klein Bottles] some of which are prominently displayed on the set of [[All_Episodes|The Portal]]. Cliff's company, [https://www.kleinbottle.com/ Acme Klein Bottles], supplies world-class blown glass Klein Bottles to many. It is purportedly operated from a crawlspace underneath his own home with the aid of some kind of robotic forklift.
-The story has been recorded recorded as a paper in the May 1988 issue of the "Communications of the ACM" Jason Scott's Texfiles.com: http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf
+=== Contributions to Computer Forensics ===
+As written in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg", after completing the optics design for the Keck Observatory, the need for further physical design expertise would diminish as construction on the observatory would commence. Cliff found himself facing the unemployment office, astronomers being in not as much demand as the concrete for the structure or ground glass for the now fully envisioned optics. Luckily enough, Cliff found himself recycled into a systems administrator at the computing department of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing computer system, he would nearly single-handedly unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, an alleged KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker. Markus Hess would be convicted in 1990. <br>
+The access was achieved by backdooring the LOGIN system utility.<br>
-Cliff Stoll may be known through The Portal due to his {{Klein Bottle}} company, {{Acme Klein Bottles}}, which is purportedly run out of a crawlspace under his house with the aid of some kind of a robotic lift, supplying blown glass {{Klein Bottles}} to many, including {{Eric Weinstein}}
+== Appearances ==
+Cliff has been [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JXdaIXi_YJl7Bh known to appear on Numberphile]<br>
+The Cuckoo's Egg has been re-enacted by Cliff and others involved on the public broadcast television program NOVA, which is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I available on youtube].<br>
+Cliff continues to speak about his historic influence on the field of computer forensics at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7rLHNXio8 SANS] and many other institutions.<br>
-Cliff has also been known to appear on {{Numberphile}}
+== Papers ==
-https://youtu.be/AAsICMPwGPY
+[https://search.proquest.com/docview/303044222/ Polarimetry of Jupiter at Large Phase Angles]<br>
+[http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf Communications of the ACM]
-dissertation
-POLARIMETRY OF JUPITER AT LARGE PHASE ANGLES
-https://search.proquest.com/docview/303044222/