In the Realm of the Hackers (2003) [video]
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070627100141/https://www.filma...
> In 1989, two Melbourne teenage hackers known as Electron and Phoenix stole a restricted computer security list and used it to break into some of the world's most classified and supposedly secure computer systems. So fast and widespread was the attack, no-one could work out how it had happened - until one of the hackers called The New York Times to brag. Ten years after their arrest, this dramatised documentary uncovers not only how they did it but why. It takes us headlong into the clandestine, risky but intoxicating world of the computer underground.
Study guide:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070905164344fw_/http://www.fil...
Review from the period:
https://www.theage.com.au/technology/breaking-into-the-realm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Realm_of_the_Hackers
> 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Dreyfus_book)
> Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.
> As of 2010, the book has sold 10,000 copies. The author made the electronic edition of the book freely available in 2001, when it was announced on Slashdot, the server housing the book crashed due to the demand for the book. It reached 400,000 downloads within two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suelette_Dreyfus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(computer_hacker)
> Electron was friends with Julian Assange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahshon_Even-Chaim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Markoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB-Hack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WANK_(computer_worm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz_(computer_security)