Ratings: 6.4/10
Genre(s): Biography | Drama
Released On: 7 October 2012
Directed by: Robert Connolly
Star Cast: Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia, Alex Williams
Synopsis: Julian
Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first
century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet
even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is
his story. 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,…
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