Hackers Wanted

IMDb link: 2292707
IMDb rating: 6.5 (206 votes)
Genres: Crime, Documentary
Director: Samuel Vartek
Cast: John Arquilla, Craig Calef, John Draper and others

Release date: 1 Jan 2009
Release year: 2009
Runtime: 86 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: education, underground film, hacker, adrian lamo, hacking, propaganda, september 11 2001, 1990s, reference to kevin mitnick, ethics

Plot:

In 2003, a crew from Kevin Spacey's TriggerStreet production company appeared to interview Adrian Lamo. It was a brief talking-head piece on an unrelated documentary. No big deal. Or so everyone thought. The shoot went as those things tend to do, everyone shook hands, and one of the crew asked offhandedly "So, what would you do if the feds came for you, Adrian?" Adrian just laughed. 90 minutes later, he wasn't laughing - his voicemail informed him that he was a fugitive from the FBI. The resulting events were caught on film for days on end before becoming: "Hackers Wanted".

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