Sensational piece on Poulsen's "crimes." Filmed in a real CO with a #1A ESS. Note the NET-LINE input message and CT02 call trace output message. Read Kevin Poulsen's response.
Hackers '95 is a 90 minute part documentary, part spoof. Phon-E and R.F. Burns cover the hacker related goings on of 1995. SummerCon 95, DEFCON 3, Operation Cyber Snare, Area 51, an interview with Erik Bloodaxe and more are covered.
The subjects of this documentary are either dangerous terrorists, computer security activists, or simply out-of-control adolescents. Your opinion may vary, depending on your stock holdings, after you watch for yourself as the members of The Cult of the Dead Cow demonstrate the ease with which their software program, "Back Orifice 2000" can seize control of a Windows computer connected to the internet. Crew: Joshua Backer, Director: Kelly Riley, Camera: Perry Hallinan, Camera: Ethan Zimmer, Consultant: Michelle Pike, Special Thanks: Festivals Conduit Festival 2000, Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Film/Animation/Video Festival 1999.
A film by Annaliza Savage. Unauthorized Access is one of the earliest independant documentaries on the subject of the computer underground. Featuring footage from around globe, this video's tone is friendly and fun. From phreaking, lockpicking, conspiracy theories, and ninja clad dumpster divers to socially active political European hackers this video covers an amazing amount of ground. (Press Release)
By Christine Bader. Hacks is a 73 minute Eurosavage documentary exploring what nature of "hacking" is in a social context. It can range from traditional hacking, to artist communes and environmental activism to genocide and illegally arming hostile third-world countries.
"Hollywood hack work from Iain Softley, director of the intriguing art-house hit, "Backbeat." A group of teen hackers, led by Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie, take on a nasty cyber-snake (Fisher Stevens) who's planning to rob his own company and pin the crime on the kids. There are some isolated moments of interest (the most commonly used passwords, apparently, are "love," "sex,""romance" and "God.") But overall, this is an embarrassing computer-nerd fantasy in which everyone into computers wears leather, hangs out at cool clubs and is busy eluding the FBI. Fine for the target audience, but anyone else may find it hard to swallow - like a desperado scenario about people who don't return their library books on time."
From the Leonard Lopate Show. Discuses his book The World Was Going Our Way. Talks about KGB operations in South America and third world countries and the attempts by the KGB to discredit the CIA (CIA started AIDS, CIA killed Allende, etc.). Quite fascinating. (Alternate Interview)
Video of a "jackpotter" defeating the coin count mechanism on a slot machine. It's most likely a device as described in GBPPR 'Zine #9. It appears to use the infrared jammer's reflection off the metal coin hopper to disable the machine's counter.
Was the Watergate break-in a quest for information about a prostitution ring allegedly operating within the Democratic National Committee suite? "The Key to Watergate" proposed this theory in 1992 as part of A&E's Investigative Reports series. Shows tradecraft.
This is a true documentary that took place at DEFCON 9 in Las Vega, 2001. The people interviewed in this documentary used their computer hacker handles and did not reveal their true identities. They have volunteered to answer questions about the computer underground and the problems facing the entire computer industry. By Christopher Klaus.
Time compressed audio from the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Starts right after the hijacking and disabling of the plane's transpoder. Note the witness planes that where in the same area, this blows away those conspiracy theories. Transcript of the voice cockpit recorder. (153k PDF)
Hippies from Hell are a group of hackers, techies, artists, writers and puzzlers. In the eighties they published hacker magazine Hacktic and in 1993 they started the first Dutch Internet-provider, xs4all, thus opening the Internet for the general public. Apart from this they throw wild parties and organize open-air hacker festivals, using the Internet as their social platform. On their mailing list they discuss almost every aspect of our technology infested society. The Dutch hackers, as the hippies were called initially, are a special group within the international hacker movement, which they helped create for a large part. In the film artists play with hardware, young hippies hack their school-calculators, lock pickers open locks without a key: hacking is not just fooling around with technology, it is an attitude, an activity, a verb.
A conversation between hacker/artist Limor Fried ("LadyAda") and Joi Ito with Phil Torrone of Make Magazine. Fried talks about her popular x0xb0x synthesizer kits, and the increasing elaborate revisioning of the product that's coming from her users. With Ito and Torrone, she proposes that this is a promising model for "open source physical objects" - extending the permitted hackability of software to hardware. This is an interview from South by Southwest: Interactive, in March 2006.
This alarming program reveals the daily battle between the Internet's outlaws and the hackers who oppose them by warding off system attacks, training IT professionals and police officers, and watching cyberspace for signs of imminent infowar. Through interviews with frontline personnel from the Department of Defense, NYPD's computer crime squad, private detective firm Kroll Associates, X-Force Threat Analysis Service, and several notorious crackers, the program provides penetrating insights into the millions of hack attacks that occur annually in the U.S. - including one that affected the phone bills of millions and another that left confidential details of the B-1 stealth bomber in the hands of teenagers. The liabilities of wireless networks, the Code Red worm, and online movie piracy are also discussed. A Discovery Channel Production.
Two part CNBC Special Report interview with Kevin Mitnick discussing his book Art of Deception. Mentions that he stole other people's personal identification.
'Digital Desperado' interview of Justin Petersen (Agent Steal) which aired on February 20, 2000. Talks about his case and a little about Poulsen and Austin.
Former KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov explains how Marxist leaders use informers to make lists of anti-Communist and other politically incorrect people who they want to execute once they -- actually a Jewish oligarchy -- come to power. The oligarch's secret lists include "civil rights" activists and idealistically-minded "useful idiot" leftists as well. Bezmenov provides several real world examples of how Marxist leaders even execute and/or imprison each other. From 1984.
Former KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov explains how the American mass media spread lies about life in the Soviet Union. Bezmenov also explains how the LOOK magazine article falsely claimed that the Russian people were proud of their victory in the Second World War, where in reality the Judeo-Bolshevik-Communist-Marxist government was happy that Hitler had been defeated so that they could remain in power. From 1984.
Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried presented the closing keynote, "Open Source Hardware: A Start..." at O'Reilly Media's Open Source Convention. Open source hardware is a term slowly working its way into many new projects and efforts, but what is it? There are a few definitions, some of which come from "open source software," which is usually considered software's "source code under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form." So how does this translate to hardware? This session will focus on electronic hardware, the layers they can be divided into, different document types, licensing concerns, and a show-n-tell of hardware. Audio only. (Slides)
What in the world is a U.S. Navy officer (a Naval Flight Officer, no less) doing in the middle of Iraq? Electronic warfare, of course! The Church of WiFi presents an unclassified presentation of theprez98's (Michael Schearer) experiences during his 9-month tour in Iraq. Embedded with Army units on the ground, theprez98 brought his expertise in electronic warfare to bear against the biggest threat to coalition forces - the improvised explosive device (IED). Drawing on his background as an EA-6B Electronic Countermeasures Officer, he will explain the counter-IED fight in Iraq. Furthermore, he will show how the "hacker mentality" continues to confront the many challenges within Iraq. (Slides)
CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie An Inconvenient Truth from U.K. schools because, according to American Morning, "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies." "There are definitely some inaccuracies," Marciano added. "The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming."
Besides "open source software," "open source hardware" as a concept is gaining more and more acceptance. One of the advocates is Limor Fried. Phillip Torrone at Austin Maker Faire (2007) asked her about what is behind this term and we have seen some hacking projects going on, for instance the WiFi-killer Jammer and the Chumby.
A very well-made documentary on the real life and times of the man held up by the claptrap press and the liberal jerk-offs as "Saint Michael." Reveals his sordid past as a car thief, drug user, Communist, and sexual degenerate. Produced by National Vanguard and narrated by Kevin Strom.
These recordings were done without the CIA or FBI's knowledge with Ames immediately after his arrest while he was in jail. In this tape, he describes two secret CIA operations that had never been exposed until after my book was published. CKABSORB was a $60 million covert project where the CIA filled a cargo container on a train going west on the TransSiberia railroad with highly sensitive electronic sensors that were supposed to take readings of Soviet warheads that were being shipped by rail eastward on the same train line. The project never produced any useful information because Ames tipped off the Soviets before it was fully developed. He also describes CKTAW an operation where the CIA was able to wire tap the KGB in Moscow. The "CK" designation was used as a prefix by the agency to denote a secret operation.
In this clip, Ames describes the CIA "assets" he betrayed, including several who the KGB immediately arrested and executed. He identified them by the cryptonyms -- code names -- that the CIA had assigned them. You will hear him discussing GTACCORD -- later identified as Vladimir Vasilyev -- who was in the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie -- Soviet Military Intelligence), which sounds like "ga-new" on the tape when Ames says it. One of his most sensational revelations is the story of GTFITNESS --- Gennady Varenik -- an officer in Germany who warned the CIA about a KGB plot to plant bombs near US military bases.
L0pht Heavy Industries, the reknowned Boston-area hacker think-tank, will reunite for a panel discussion to discuss the last decade of the security industry and how it has evolved. Discussion will include insights on new security technologies and their predictions on the future of the industry. Panel members will include: DilDog, John Tan, Mudge, Silicosis, Space Rogue, Weld Pond (Original)
MTV featured "I'm a Hacker" on its True Life series. A number of teen hackers (Mantis, Shamrock, and Uglypig) were featured discussing their exploits. After the episode aired in 1999, one of the filmed hackers (shamrock) revealed that he intentionally misrepresented his exploits in order to hoax MTV. (MTV - How Did It Happen?)
WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio. They're remnants of yesterday's old technology landscape: the VCR, the record player, the point-and-click, film camera. But a dedicated group of amateur tinkerers are retrofitting these analog toys for the digital era. We learn about a new public television show that's exploring quirky, fun and education Do-it-Yourself projects. With John Park and Dale Dougherty
Israel is becoming increasingly tech-savvy, taking its war message to the blogosphere, using live webcams, social networking sites and YouTube, to explain its assault on Gaza. Israel, which has fought six wars since its creation in 1948, often worries that it doesn't do a good enough job of communicating its motives to critics and skeptics around the globe. So using everything from YouTube to Twitter and Facebook, Israeli diplomats and lobby groups have flooded the airwaves and the Internet with Israel's position.
From the Discovery Channel on December 23, 1994. A report on computer hackers which focuses on the early 1990s New York City hacking scene. Includes interviews with Mark Abene, Winn Schwartau, Eric Corley, Dale Drew, Don Delany, Dan Farmer.
How does computer crime really work? What does the Internet look like? Find out when a one-time Berkeley hippie/astrophysicist turns detective and gets mixed up with the CIA and KGB. NOVA follows computer sleuth Clifford Stoll as he tracks down a data thief through a maze of military and research computers. From 1990.
Masha Vallenchenko is an attorney involved in human rights issues in Russia, previously having worked in the human rights legal department directly under President Putin's administration. Over the past few years she has been embarked on research of the greatest violation of human rights and life in the history of the world... that is the 1917 Revolution in Russia and its tragic consequences for so many Russians.
Jon Ronson reviews the ideas and beliefs of David Icke, a British writer and public speaker notable for unusual and controversial theories. Part of The Secret Rulers of the World series.
During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship. The American government accepted the explanation. &nbnsp;For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable to rebut it convincingly. Now, Dead in the Water uses startling new evidence to reveal the truth behind the seemingly inexplicable attack. The film combines dramatic reconstruction of the events, with new access to former officers in the U.S. and Israeli armed forces and intelligence services who have decided to give their own version of events. Interviews include President Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara, former head of the Israeli navy Admiral Shlomo Errell and members of the USS Liberty crew. (BBC Link)
