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{{quote|Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.|Clifford Stoll, [https://youtu.be/AAsICMPwGPY Numberphile - Klein Bottles]}}
{{quote|Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.|Clifford Stoll, Numberphile - Klein Bottles}}


== Description ==
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Cliff Stoll is an astronomer, author, teacher, and computing legend who is well known by his top quality, low volume [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle Klein Bottles] some of which are prominently displayed on the set of [[All_Episodes|The Portal]]. Cliff's company, [https://www.kleinbottle.com/ Acme Klein Bottles], supplies world-class blown glass Klein Bottles to many. It is purportedly operated from a crawlspace underneath his own home with the aid of some kind of robotic forklift.


=== Contributions to Computer Forensics ===
Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher who attained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1980.
As written in his book "The Cuckoo's Egg", after completing the optics design for the Keck Observatory, the need for further physical design expertise would diminish as construction on the observatory would commence. Cliff found himself facing the unemployment office, astronomers being in not as much demand as the concrete for the structure or ground glass for the now fully envisioned optics. Luckily enough, Cliff found himself recycled into a systems administrator at the computing department of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing computer system, he would nearly single-handedly unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, an alleged KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker. Markus Hess would be convicted in 1990. <br>
According to his book, once the grant money employing Cliff as a designer of telescope optics for Keck Observatory dried up, Cliff would find himself saved from the unemployment office, reused as a Systems Administrator back at the computer department at the {{Lawrence Berkeley Lab}}. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing VAX computer system, he would unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, a KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker. Β 
The access was achieved by backdooring the LOGIN system utility.<br>


== Appearances ==
The story has been recorded recorded as his 1989 book "The Cuckoo's Egg", as well as the May, 1988 issue of the "Communications of the ACM" Jason Scott's Texfiles.com: http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf
Cliff has been [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JXdaIXi_YJl7Bh known to appear on Numberphile]<br>
The Cuckoo's Egg has been re-enacted by Cliff and others involved on the public broadcast television program NOVA, which is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I available on youtube].<br>
Cliff continues to speak about his historic influence on the field of computer forensics at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7rLHNXio8 SANS] and many other institutions.<br>


== Papers ==
Cliff Stoll is know through The Portal because of his {{Klein Bottle}} company, {{Acme Klein Bottles}}, which is purportedly run out of a crawlspace under his house with the aid of some kind of a robotic lift, supplying blown glass {{Klein Bottles}} to many, including {{Eric Weinstein}}
[https://search.proquest.com/docview/303044222/ Polarimetry of Jupiter at Large Phase Angles]<br>
[http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf Communications of the ACM]


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Cliff has also been known to appear on {{Numberphile}}
https://youtu.be/AAsICMPwGPY
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dissertation
POLARIMETRY OF JUPITER AT LARGE PHASE ANGLES
https://search.proquest.com/docview/303044222/
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