In the Realm of the Hackers (2003)

Directed by

Kevin Anderson

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

55 min

Rated

M

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Australian teenage hackers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It follows two young men who broke into highly secure government and military computer networks.

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What happens

In The Realm of the Hackers is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s until early 1990. The storyline is centered on the Australian teenagers going by the hacker names "Electron" and "Phoenix", who were members of an elite computer hacking group called 'The Realm' and hacked into some of the most secure computer networks in the world, including those of the US Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a government lab charged with the security of the US nuclear stockpile, and NASA. The film runs for 55 minutes and was inspired by the book Underground, by Melbourne-based writer and academic Suelette Dreyfus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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