In the Realm of the Hackers

2003 Australian film
  • 2003 (2003)
Running time
55 minutesCountryAustraliaLanguageEnglishBudgetAU$400,000

In The Realm of the Hackers is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson[1][2] 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",[3] 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.[4]

See also

  • Electron (computer hacker)
  • Nahshon Even-Chaim
  • Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
  • Hacktivism

References

  1. ^ "On the trail of hackers anonymous". The Age, 22 May 2003
  2. ^ "In The Realm Of The Hackers". Variety, 24 June 2002, David Stratton
  3. ^ William Webb (10 October 2013). You've Been Hacked: 15 Hackers You Hope Your Computer Never Meets. Absolute Crime. p. 9. GGKEY:KR2XN27LHQQ.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Nathan Cochrane (20 May 2003). "Breaking into The Realm". The Age.
  • Broadcast write-up
  • Australian Film Commission information
  • In the Realm of the Hackers at IMDb


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