The results are in. And so, without further ado, we present the unofficial top 10 best hacking documentaries of all time: Hackers in Wonderland Documentary focusing on UK and US hackers, featuring interviews where they discuss their varied motivations and exploits.
Faced with the prospect of going to prison, Swartz committed suicide. Spying on the Scammers Citizen journalist Jim Browning gains unprecedented access to an Indian tech support scam center.
Available to watch on Amazon Prime. WannaCry: The Marcus Hutchins Story Marcus Hutchins went from obscurity to overnight fame in May after accidentally discovering a kill switch that stopped the spread of WannaCry, hours after the ransomware affected thousands of systems across the world.
Citizenfour The critically-acclaimed Citizenfour is the inside story of how former NSA contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden exposed the extent of wholesale surveillance by the US government against its own population. Drink all the beer. Pwn all the things. The Great Hack Curiously, the top-rated hacking documentary of all time is not even about hacking technology of any type, but instead focused on how social media data is being weaponized for political gain.
In , astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when he noticed a cent discrepancy between In the late s two Melbourne teenage computer hackers known as Electron and Phoenix stole a restricted computer security list called 'Zardoz' and used it to break into some of the The film the voting machine corporations don't want you to see.
TV Animation, Adventure, Fantasy. By splicing in data from what would have been another project, CC Corp. In , " Not Rated 45 min Comedy, Drama, Mystery.
The X-Files' Lone Gunmen, their action-loving man-childish sidekick and patron, Jimmy Bond, and their sexy master thief frienemy, Yves, investigate crimes and conspiracies, often in a silly, comedic and over the top fashion. Votes: 5, An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students.
When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the plan. R 94 min Action, Comedy, Crime. Kevin, Sam and Rob are founding members of a theoretical group which pulls off heists. Leo, a gangster, blackmails them into pulling off a real multi-million dollar heist. Now it's up to them to get out alive. PG min Action, Crime, Thriller. A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.
R 95 min Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Hall , Ludacris , Amber Valletta. R 89 min Comedy. R min Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again. R min Action, Crime, Sci-Fi. When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages to escape into the real world, an ex-cop is tasked with stopping its reign of terror. PG min Action, Adventure, Thriller. Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" and James Bond has to stop them from using it.
This stunning quote is from the hacking documentary, We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists , is a succinct and accurate description of typical members of the computer hacking collective that calls itself "Anonymous". This documentary shades toward depicting hackers as libertarians who use their skills to fight government and corporate interest that the group considers to be corrupt. To a lesser extent, it also exposes hacking as a criminal activity that can have devastating consequences for any entity that finds itself in the collective's crosshairs.
Regardless of whether a hacker's actions are driven by criminal intent or social justice, the hackers in We Are Legion and other hacking documentaries place a spotlight on the real costs of a hack attack. The national data breach insurance carrier , CyberPolicy, Inc. The Discovery Channel's documentary, The Secret History of Hacking , traces the early roots of computer "hacktivism" from the 's through the 's, with particular focus on the renowned hacker-turned-cybersecurity specialist, Kevin Mitnick.
The film takes a look at the origin and nature of hacking by following the life of Adrian Lamo. Lamo was a hacker-turned-security analyst who found himself running from the FBI overnight. The events in the following days were captured and made into this documentary. The Great Hack is a documentary by Netflix that follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal of The Cambridge Analytica saga is one of the biggest tech controversies to have happened in recent years.
Cambridge Analytica privately collected Facebook data of 87 million users to manipulate voters. The company allegedly helped Donald Trump to win his election and helped pass the UK Brexit referendum. The film starts by graphically showing how data from people leaked from their laptops and phones and recordings involving a few key players.
The Great Hack pieces together the story of a company brought down by its own unethical behavior. The film raises questions surrounding cultural polarization and privacy. Hacke rs is a movie that was written by Rafael Moreu and directed by Iain Softley. The film follows an eleven-year-old teenage hacker who is charged with crashing over 1, Wall Street computers. He is banned from using touch-tone phones and computers until he is 18 years. On his 18 th birthday, he receives a computer and uses it to hack into the computer network of a local TV station.
This move sets him on a downward spiral where he ends up meeting a group of high school hackers. Who Am I is a hacker movie directed by Baran bo Obar. The film follows Benjamin, a computer expert who is lonely. Benjamin learned to program at a young age and started hacking at
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