Hackers Wanted

Jan 1, 2009

1h 27m

★ 6.0

Hackers: Outlaws or Patriots?

Overview

Hackers Wanted explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history.

Genres

Action

Thriller

Documentary

Hackers Wanted Trailers

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Cast

Self

Adrian Lamo

Narrator

Kevin Spacey

Self

Steve Wozniak

Self

Peter Shipley

Self

Kevin Rose

Self

Dorothy Dennings

Self

Craig Calef

Self

Robert Lyttle

Self

John Draper

Self

Richard Feynman

Self

John Arquilla

Self

Leo Laporte

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

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