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Sep 2025
31m 16s

An Astronomer Hunts a KGB Hacker

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios
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September 10, 1986. It’s just before 8am when Cliff Stoll’s pager jolts him awake. A computer at Lawrence Berkeley Lab has flagged a problem: a tiny 75-cent accounting error. But when Stoll rushes to his office, he realizes this isn’t about missing spare change. Someone has slipped into the lab’s network, tunneling thousands of miles away into U.S. military ... Show More
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