Clifford Stoll

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Clifford Stoll is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 10, 2025 and January 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “1995 book by scientist Clifford Stoll”; “Astronomer/engineer/writer Clifford Stoll will be doing a Q&A at Mox in SF”. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, Bernie Sanders, Dustin Moskovitz.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 10, 2025
  • Last seen: January 05, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

December 10, 2025 · Original source
53: Silicon Snake Oil was a 1995 book by scientist Clifford Stoll arguing that the Internet was being overhyped (h/t @IsaacKing314). Highlights, courtesy of @cyph3rf0x:
January 05, 2026 · Original source
3: Astronomer/engineer/writer Clifford Stoll (mentioned on last month’s links post for his book Silicon Snake Oil, but also famous for cybersecurity adventures and Klein bottle making) will be doing a Q&A at Mox in SF on January 13, see here for details/signup.