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The Secret History of Hacking

The Secret History of Hacking Title Card
Format	Video (TV)
Genre	Documentary
Origin	UK
Language	English
Release Date	1 January 2001
Running Time	50 min
Production
Created by	NA
Directed by	Ralph Lee
Produced by	Mira King, James Burstall
Written by	NA
Screenplay by	NA
Distributed by	September FIlms
Narrated by	Qarie Marshall
Starring	John Draper, Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick
Music by	Qarie Marshall
Cinematography by	NA
Edited by	NA
Production Company	September FIlms
Location(s)	Various
Original Channel	Discovery
Additional Information
Based on	NA
Topics	Technology, Computers, Hacking
Follows	NA
Precedes	NA
Associated Video	Hackers: Outlaws and Angels
Website	NA

The Secret History of Hacking is a 2001 documentary film that focuses on phreaking, computer hacking and social engineering occurring from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Archive footage concerning the subject matter and (computer generated) graphical imagery specifically created for the film are voiced over with narrative audio commentary, intermixed with commentary from people who in one way or another have been closely involved in these matters.

Synopsis

The film starts by reviewing the concept and the early days of phreaking, featuring anecdotes of phreaking experiences (often involving the use of a blue box) recounted by John Draper and Denny Teresi. By way of commentary from Steve Wozniak, the film progresses from phreaking to computer hobbyist hacking (including anecdotal experiences of the Homebrew Computer Club) on to computer security hacking, noting differences between the latter 2 forms of hacking in the process. The featured computer security hacking and social engineering stories and anecdotes predominately concern experiences involving Kevin Mitnick. The film also deals with how society's (and notably law enforcement's) fear of hacking has increased over time due to media attention of hacking (by way of the film WarGames as well as journalistic reporting on actual hackers) combined with society's further increase in adoption of and subsequent reliance on computing and communication networks.

John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick are prominently featured while the film additionally features comments from or else archive footage concerning Denny Teresi, Joybubbles, Mike Gorman, Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Paul Loser, Lee Felsenstein, Jim Warren, John Markoff, Jay Foster, FBI Special Agent Ken McGuire, Jonathan Littman, Michael Strickland and others.

Hackers: Computer Outlaws

The film appears to also have been distributed or recut for the channel TLC and titled Hackers: Computer Outlaws. The run times and animations appear to be the same though the voice narration is different.

Downloads

References

• thesprawl.org
• phreakvids.com

External Links

• The Secret History of Hacking on IMDB