Title: Easy To Read, If Nothing Else
Product review: As a computer security case story, it is a pleasantly easy read, and Stoll generally succeeds at making a fairly dry and abstract matter readable to Joe Bloggs (i. e. me). Unfortunately this book is written along the lines of the American school of easy - to - read - yet - voluminous - enough - to - look - good - on - my - bookshelf writing, which means that two thirds are actually made up of inane stories of Clifford's personal life in which he essentially tries to sucker up to his readership -- "check it out, I'm just such a whacky hippy". Unfortunately, though not for lack of trying, he fails to concile his flower - power stance with his eager cooperation with some decidedly unmellow intelligence agencies. Which one is it going to be, Clifford -- snitch or freak? You can't have it both ways.
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