Discovery Channel - Hackers & OutLaws Actual Title "New York City Hackers"
The Internet has no foolproof immune system, and dont they know it. Boldly going where no unauthorized user has gone before, hackers such as Captain Zap and Cold Fire have tapped into everything from the AT&T phone network to cell-phone billing systems sometimes to make mischief and, sometimes, just to see if they can. Whats at stake? Only private medical records, financial data, a companys business secrets, personal e-mail and possibly national security. For those who think that hackers are just annoying geeks, they better think again. This program is a lively, easy-to-understand look inside todays flourishing hacker community
Very interesting program. Has some eye opening info..... Like the US Gov is in complete control of the internet.. Huh? Apparently it's true, I checked into a few of the facts provided on the show and found some interesting facts... Like the gov is in control of all IP allocation...
A Excerpt from the movie.
It is widely held that mankind has got basic rights
For the most part those basic rights that are represented in the Bill of Rights
and the US Constitution, and copied by constitutions around the world
Of those rights, two of the ones that I feel are the most important
are the freedom of speech, and the freedom to privacy
Both of these rights are the freedoms of communication
And I believe strongly in those rights
The Internet has been a societal revolution.
The reason the Internet been a societal revolution is that it has changed
the way fundamentally that we as a world wide society communicate
Many people feel that the Internet is a free
international communication medium
when in fact it's not.
The Internet as we know it today is controlled by the U.S. Government.
And I am opposed to this.
The United States Government, through its contracts and programs,
controls everything from IP-address allocations to who has overriding
authority over the domain name space.
In addition they govern how
the TR1 internet providers can do business
Ultimately this ends up translating into total control of the Internet