1. Clifford Stoll is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.
Cliff Clifford Stoll attended Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York.
Clifford Stoll received his PhD from the University of Arizona in 1980.
Clifford Stoll spent 10 months trying to track the hacker's whereabouts and eventually managed to do so when a hacker tried to gain access to the computer of a DoD contractor in Virginia.
Clifford Stoll described the events of his investigation in The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage and the paper "Stalking the Wily Hacker".
Clifford Stoll's book was later chronicled in an episode of WGBH's NOVA titled "The KGB, the Computer, and Me", which aired on PBS stations in 1990.
Clifford Stoll made various predictions in the article, such as calling e-commerce nonviable and the future of printed news publications.
Clifford Stoll was an eighth-grade physics teacher at Tehiyah Day School, in El Cerrito, California, and later taught physics to home-schooled teenagers.
Clifford Stoll is an FCC licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign K7TA.
Clifford Stoll appears frequently on Brady Haran's YouTube channel Numberphile.
Clifford Stoll sells blown glass Klein bottles on the internet through his company Acme Klein Bottles.