In The Realm of the Hackers is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Kevin Anderson about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s until early 1990. The storyline is centered on the Australian teenagers going by the hacker names "Electron" and "Phoenix", who were members of an elite computer hacking group called 'The Realm' and hacked into some of the most secure computer networks in the world, including those of the US Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a government lab charged with the security of the US nuclear stockpile, and NASA. The film runs for 55 minutes and was inspired by the book Underground, by Melbourne-based writer and academic Suelette Dreyfus.

See also

Electron (computer hacker) Nahshon Even-Chaim Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier Hacktivism

In the Realm of the Hackers

References

External links

Broadcast write-up

Australian Film Commission information

2003 films

2003 short documentary films

Australian short documentary films

Documentary films about the Internet

Hacker culture

Works about computer hacking

2000s English-language films

In the Realm of the Hackers