NOVA · SEASON 17

The KGB, The Computer and Me

Episode 10 · 1990-10-02

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  • Documentary

Episode overview

This documentary covers the surprising tale of an average systems administrator who stumbled upon a KGB spy operation. Clifford Stoll carried out one of the first successful digital forensics investigations by tracking down Markus Hess, a KGB hacker, after noticing a discrepancy in the logs of a University of California computer.

55 minutes

Season 17 episodes