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克利夫·斯托尔：发明追捕黑客艺术的疯狂科学家
Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
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《连线》杂志对 Cliff Stoll 的人物特写：这位天文学家出身的系统管理员在 1986 年因 75 美分的账目差错，顺藤摸瓜追踪出一名受克格勃雇佣的黑客，并写成经典纪实作品《布谷鸟的蛋》（The Cuckoo's Egg）；此后他一边做科普，一边手工制作并出售克莱因瓶。文章讲述了他的性格、他那股“低温燃烧式的道德义愤”，以及黑客追猎这门手艺的由来。
为什么经久不衰：它写的是一个用好奇心和耐心、而非技术炫技抓住黑客的真实故事，主角本人又极具传奇色彩；书中那种“看不下去就要查到底”的执拗，今天读来依然动人。
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克莱因瓶作为工程奖：作者亲历 Cliff 接电话讲了 15 分钟刻字工艺，还提到《布谷鸟的蛋》对他的影响。
我们公司把 Cliff 的克莱因瓶作为季度工程卓越奖。订第一批时，我打 Acme Klein Bottles 网站上的电话，想问能不能刻字（网站上说他本人不刻字，但我想确认有没有别人能刻）。电话响了几声转入语音信箱，我开始留言提问，忽然一阵嘈杂——有人接起了真答录机，大喊“别挂！别挂！”那就是 Cliff。我一时有点追星般的激动，告诉他《布谷鸟的蛋》对我年少时影响多大，随后听他讲了 15 分钟刻字工艺的口述史，以及为什么这些方法在他的克莱因瓶上都行不通。这是我那一年的高光时刻，奖品也很受欢迎……尽管我们得用标签机贴上获奖者名字 :)。
numlocked查看英文原文
At work, we give Cliff’s Klein bottles as the quarterly award for engineering excellence. When I ordered the first batch, I called the number on the Acme Klein bottles website to ask whether they could be engraved (the site states the CLIFF won’t engrave the bottles but I wanted clarification if ANYONE would engrave them). It rang and went to voicemail. I started leaving a message with my question when suddenly there was a lot of noise as the phone was picked up (apparently it was a real answering machine) by someone shouting “don’t hang up! Don’t hang up!”. It was Cliff. I was briefly star-struck, told him what an influence The Cuckoo’s Egg had on me when I was younger, and then received a 15-minute oral history of engraving methods and why none of them would work on his Klein bottles. An absolute highlight of my year, and I think they’ve been well received as engineering awards...even if we have to use a label-maker to add the recipient’s name :)
《布谷鸟的蛋》让少年读者看到计算机的可能性，至今仍值得一读。
高中（也许是初中）时，我要选一本非虚构书做作业，就挑了 Stoll 的《布谷鸟的蛋》。我当时已经对计算机感兴趣，但完全不知道计算机能做什么、这份兴趣能通向哪里，这本书把我的眼界打开了。我记得老师看封面时还质疑这算不算非虚构，结果它确实是。这是一段美好的回忆，也是一本至今仍值得读的好书。
eddieroger查看英文原文
Sometime in high school (middle maybe?), I had to pick a non-fiction book to read for school, and picked Cuckoo's Egg by Stoll. I was already in to computers, but had no idea what was possible or where that interest in computers would or could go, and this booked changed my view for the better. I distinctly remember my teacher questioning it was non-fiction when reading the jacket, but sure enough, it was. It's an great memory and amazing book, well worth reading still.
真正值得倾听的人身上常有一种沉默内敛的道德义愤，驱使他们默默行动。
我觉得这句话很值得注意：“这是 Stoll 痴迷猎捕黑客的另一味原料……一种低温燃烧的道德义愤。”因为我发现很多值得倾听的人身上都有同样的东西。一般来说，得和他们相处一段时间才会察觉：有一种内在的道德罗盘在微妙地影响所有决定，哪怕明知世界上大多数人并不在意。它和那些社会正义活动家不同之处在于：它多半是沉默的、内向的、看不见的，是去做而不是去说。
hyperman1查看英文原文
I find this remarkable: This is the other ingredient to Stoll’s hacker-hunting obsession [...] a kind of low-burning moral outrage. because I notice the same in a lot of other people worth listening to. In general you won't notice it until you spend some time with them. There is some internal moral compass influencing all decisions subtly, even in the knowledge most of the world doesn't care. Its different from SJWs etc in that its mostly silent, internal, invisible, doing instead of saying. For an other example, here's what Neil Gaiman says about Terry Pratchett: There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
买克莱因瓶还收到 Cliff 亲手装箱的照片，购物体验极佳。
我买过他的一个克莱因瓶。除了本身就是件好作品，他还随包裹寄来了他把它装箱寄出时拍的精彩照片。大概是我有史以来最棒的一次购物体验。
musingsole查看英文原文
I bought one of his Klein bottles and on top of being a great piece of work, he sent along with it fantastic pictures of him putting it in the box for shipping. Probably my favorite experience buying anything ever.
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