Paul Harper

Cambodia Cambodia

Information Security Warrior and Scholar

Technology / Software / Internet

Many years ago I read a book 'The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage'​ which showed how Astronomer Cliff Stoll found a 75 cent error in an accounting program which led him to tracking a German hacker who was working KGB across the early US internet and back to Hanover. As the result of this I developed a passion for computers, operating systems (Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD) and especially information security. When I first arrived at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY) in 1999 the Chief of Security at the time stated during our induction that he spent "75 percent of my time working on information security is.