Unlikely legend …

… Meet Cliff Stoll, the Mad Scientist Who Invented the Art of Hunting Hackers | WIRED. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

As The Cuckoo’s Egg hits its 30th anniversary, the book has sold more than 1 million copies. And for a smaller core of cybersecurity practitioners within that massive readership, it’s become a kind of legend: the ur-narrative of a lone hacker hunter, a text that has inspired an entire generation of network defenders chasing their own anomalies through a vastly larger, infinitely more malicious internet.