Literature and Films
After Hess's capture, Stoll wrote about his efforts to track and locate Hess in a technical paper, Stalking the Wily Hacker, and a book for the general public, The Cuckoo's Egg. The Cuckoo's Egg was adapted into a 1990 Nova episode, "The KGB, The Computer, and Me".
In 1996 Ian Probert wrote a short book The Internet Incident, which was also published under the title The Internet Spy. The book was based on Hess's life with a fictitious unnamed child as the story’s narrator.
During 2007, March The Second, an independent short film directed by Kyle van Tonder, was produced. The film was based on the book The Internet Incident with Shannon Mayne (playing the part of the hacker) and Christoff Pienaar (playing the part of the child narrator, Timothy).
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