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A good portion of this page reads as if it was taken from Stoll's novel, "A Cuckoo's Egg."
could we get some dates into the article. is this recent at all? what time frame? Tbbooher 21:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes exactly. Dates please! Philip Howard 11:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
It's dated to somewhere in 1986 or so and that time german hacker group named Computer Chaos Club (and non members also) sold software to KGB. Some software was secret stuff but some of it was just GPL/PD software from public servers. KGB wasn't really happy about that.
--Zache 10:01, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
What's the relation between the actual persons and events and the movie "23" that was based on them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.141.167.23 (talk) 13:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
AFAIK a "Fangschaltung" was set up (ie. phone calls into a hacked VAX at University of Bremen were traced by the telecommunication provider) and so the police could find out that Hess had dialed into the VAX from his phone (with an acoustic coppler). But the call trace had been installed without being approved by court, so probably lots of the gathered evidence was not allowed for the following case.
This is not a page about Hess, it's more about how Stoll found Hess. 74.95.195.137 (talk) 18:22, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
What happened to Hess after his release from prison? He must have popped up somewhere doing something in all that time, or a journalist must have tried to track him down. Credulity (talk) 17:24, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
This article is desperately in need of references to reliable sources. I have tried to add a few to verify the key details. In doing so, I checked the claim in the article that Hess was sentenced to one to three years in prison. Initially, I found sources confirming this, but I thought that one to thee years was an oddly vague sentence, so I checked Nexis for coverage from the time. His sentence was actually 20 months and suspended. The more recent sources must have got the information from this Wikipedia article. This demonstrates the danger of unsourced articles and WP:CIRC. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Why is there a reference to the CCC? I really don't see the reason, except that both are German. If I am missing a detail, this is not clear from the article...217.33.202.98 (talk)
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Are there any sources that establish that he had contacts with the KGB rather than GRU for example? Or maybe the intelligence services of a satellite state like Hungary? The data he procured doesn't seem to be of interest of the KGB as they dealt with internal affairs and counter-intelligence. GRU on the other hand would love to have as much technical data as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dimitar ot gorata (talk • contribs) 21:22, 8 May 2020 (UTC)