Monday 8 October 2012

Underground: The Julian Assange Story (Channel 10 Australia 7/10/12)


In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security. At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special taskforce to catch them. But at a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, they had to figure out just where to begin. Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows, is a tense and gripping game of cat and mouse through the electronic underground of Melbourne. CAST Christine Assange: Rachel Griffiths / Detective Ken Roberts: Anthony LaPaglia / Julian Assange: Alex Williams / Electra: Laura Wheelwright / Prime Suspect: Callan McAuliffe / Trax: Jordan Raskopoulos /Jonah: Benedict Samuel
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Suelette Dreyfus - Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (PDF)

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