• "Stalking the Wily Hacker" is about Cliff Stoll, a physicist at UC Berkley who invented cybersecurity after noticing that a few cents were missing from the computer lab. This story is WILD.
I worked with Tim Paterson (guy who invented what became MS-DOS) at Microsoft. We were on the VB team. Once I came into his office while he was viewing a hex dump. He was reading generated code. He had memorized the x86 opcodes and it was just too slow for him to look at assembly output.