Thank you for the link. Amazing. And Cliff as himself ! I read the book but just could not stop watching the documentary.

Next time I am in Hannover will have to take a photo in front of the flat. It got a repaint though...

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.371627,9.7208921,3a,53.1y,13...

Ooh ... I visited there way back when. Down where that bike is parked there was a coin-operated cigarette machine. And they sold Benson & Hedges ciggies (which were the passwords that the hackers had chosen). Sends me way back, Belter.

Wanna really nerd out, here's the Grateful Dead show Cliff cut out of hacker chasing to go attend: https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-21.sbd.brame.15406.sbeok...

"A bass guitar note took my attention from the hacker’s trail. The Grateful Dead were playing outdoors at the Berkeley Greek Theater, only a hundred yards downhill from the lab. The police couldn’t keep people from sitting in the field overlooking the concert, so I skipped over there, mingling with a thousand others in tie-dyed shirts. Burnt-out panhandlers, left over from the sixties, walked the crowd, begging tickets and selling posters, buttons, and grass. The drum solo in the second set echoed from Strawberry Canyon, adding a weird backbeat appreciated only by us cheapskates in the fields. Life was full: no hacker is worth missing a Dead concert for..."

"The Cuckoo's Egg" - Pag 35 (on my edition)

Complete agreement — wouldn’t miss a Dead concert for anything.

Hmmm - I seem to be agreeing with myself. I tend to do that, occasionally.

It looks like archive.org also has it: https://archive.org/details/The_KGB_The_Computer_and_Me_1990

That you are linking to a bootleg copy of video on this thread is...ironic, to say the least.

Well, it is unavailable on Amazon...

https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp...

Don't worry, I'm sure "AMVOOM The KGB, the Computer, and Me" will be listed anytime soon.

Fascinating movie, thank you for linking to it! I loved to see what logging and tracing looked like back in the day. Looks a lot more fun than just dumping terabytes to S3. I also really enjoyed how stoked and energetic Cliff was about the whole thing. What a gem!