Documentaries Tagged “hacking”
Freedom Downtime: The Story of Kevin Mitnick
Freedom Downtime: The Story of Kevin Mitnick
Can you launch a nuclear missile by whistling into a payphone? The unofficial story of Kevin Mitnick, possibly the first citizen in American history to be jailed without a bail-hearing. He went to jail for nothing more than copying software, but was “convicted” by the media both for breaking into NORAD as well as causing millions of do...
Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
This film chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple II and VisiCalc.
It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s at the beginning of the Dot-com boom. It includes interviews with Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs and ...
Technology: World War 2.0
Technology: World War 2.0
Josh Davis of Wired magazine investigates an Internet bot-net attack of Estonia’s banks and newspapers.
Wired Science reports on cardiac surgery performed by a robo-doc.
Adam Rogers explores the disappearance of home chemistry sets.
Ziya Tong delves into technology that is helping children with Asperger’s Syndrome by translati...
Modern Marvels: The Creation of the Computer
Modern Marvels: The Creation of the Computer
The machines at the center of the information age have revolutionized our lives and digitalized our world, making previously unthinkable tasks automatic and linking people from around the planet.
Modern Marvels presents a fascinating exploration into the history of the computer. See Charles Babbage’s Victorian “counting machine,” a ...
Hackers: Outlaws and Angels
Hackers: Outlaws and Angels
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...
Download: The True Story of the Internet: People Power
Download: The True Story of the Internet: People Power
Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution — the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.
From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and...