References in Popular Culture
- The book was chronicled in an episode of WGBH's NOVA entitled "The KGB, the Computer, and Me", which aired on PBS stations on October 3, 1990.
- Another documentary, entitled Spycatcher was also made by Yorkshire Television.
- The number sequence mentioned in Chapter 48 has become a popular math puzzle, known as the Cuckoo's Egg, the Morris Number Sequence, or the look-and-say sequence.
- In the summer of 2000 the name "Cuckoo's Egg" was used to describe a file sharing hack attempt that substituted white noise or sound effects files for legitimate song files on Napster and other networks.
- These events are referenced in Cory Doctorow's speculative fiction short story "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away", as "(a) sysadmin who’d tracked a $0.75 billing anomaly back to foreign spy-ring that was using his systems to hack his military".
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