Underground: The Julian Assange Story Page #2

Synopsis: Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as 'Mendax', Assange and two friends formed a group called the 'International Subversives'. Using early home computers and defining themselves as 'white hat hackers' - those who look but don't steal - they broke into some of the world's most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security. At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special taskforce to catch them. But at a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, they had to figure out just where to begin. Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows,
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Robert Connolly
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
94 min
65 Views


How romantic.

Heyyy..What?

- We are in a metal container full of paper. Sorry.

I think we found what we need.

Hey!

U.S Military network. MILNE Guess we win.

Ok , but here are the rules .

- Rules? We break rules.

We only look. Papers do nothing.

We leave no traces.

Where is the fun in that?

Its Ringing.

-Quick! Go ahead .

Hello?

I told you . I told you it would work.

Free international calls.

Well, that was fun.

I like your friends.

Dad. Julian. Julian. Dad.

Its very good of you Son, Walking her home.

Be earlier in the future.

- Yeah, I'll make sure. I'll do it.

Five minutes.

Get me out of here.

Unauthorized warning system .

When do we want it?

- Now!

we are all gathered here becuase the U.S.A are going to send plutonium into space.

They should stop this

This is ridiculous.

Well, I have ...

- It makes them scared.

Are you okay?

- Yeah, just dizzy.

Do you want to take it , Julian .

Can you get the arms?

Just Hold that. Ok .

All right. We are in.

- What a waste.

Will you move the arms gently. Not too much,

or it looks silly.

Make that a bit evil.

- Evil arms.

Just make your arms..you know like anger.

Having a protest outside the

US Embassy on Tuesday.

Whats the point? Only 20 people turned up today.

-Well the Newspapers were there. They noticed.

Yeah! They were laughing.

- Well, my f***in puppet.

You know if you think its not big enough, may be you should...

-No, They laughed at you. It's ridiculous.

NASA is about to launch plutonium

into space.

Julian ? What do you want to do?

Just sit there waiting for it to burn up and rain down on us?

I don't know . but your

puppet changed nothing .

100,000 may have walked today.

and NASA would still send plutonium into space.

Yeah! well! I'm not going to give up trying Julian.

Well I hope you enjoy wasting your entire life, trying.

Why is my life..

wills to turning to sh*t and all you can do is to

The world is on the brink.

and you've gotten your 17 -year-old girl friend pregnant.

Look at her.

- What?

Tell me I 'm wrong.

I do not need this.

- Elektra .

Julian , Julian.

You've got more talent in your little fingers.

but your life is crushing you, you have to

stand up

and decide what is that you want.

Don't let her choices make you normal, boring and f***ing normal.

What? My life normal? What about my life is

f***ing normal,in anyway huh?

Elektra ! Why didn't you tell me?

What the f***. I didn't know what to do.

- Ooh.This is not just you .This is the two of us .

Well I can't stay here anymore.

Your mother f***ing hates me.

She doesn't.

I'm going.

Can we stay for a bit?

- Yeah , come on in. Cool!

you can crash at my room. Really?

- Yeah, SUre.

Thanks. Thank you.

So we've got all the necessary items here eh!!

Blankets in there.

You can stay , as long as you need.

- Thanks. Thank you.

When are you due?

January .

Well I can help you if you wanna have the baby here.

I just started a nursing course.

Yeah.I do not know if I want to keep it.

But thanks.

Alright. Enjoy.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

mendax

Anyone Up?

Great Jules. No running water.

but We've got the computer guy.

What ?

You might want to see this.

from Florida.

"WANK"

- "Worms Against Nuclear killing"

What the hell is a worm ?

- Its a program that attacks other computers

They shot down NASA.

- No kidding .

"You talk of times of peace for all,

and then prepare for war."

Is that some kind of a poem ?

The FBI is convinced

that it comes from Melbourne .

today's launch of the

probe to Jupiter was called off

after NASA computers

were infiltrated.

by what the agency is referring

to as a computer virus.

anti-nuclear activists

Celebrated today's aborted mission

but NASA insists the launch will be rescheduled

despite protestor's objections

to the plutonium based fuel cells

being used in the Galileo craft.

Thornbury, Melbourne

November, 1989

Do you like it?

- Yeah I do.

Not too normal?

- what With me and you?

Yeah.

Cool.

Well they left it painted.

Ok . Here we are.

power it up.

So this is going to scan the lines ,

and identify computers that..

talk to each other.

The Guys downstairs are patching phone lines

into mainframe through to us.

An alarm will go off when there is a computer on the line.

Once we've identified the line.

We can feed it to the computer..

and see exactly what they are looking at.

Yeah. We're ready down here.

Hey, Howz it goin? Check it out!!

- ... Extraordinary night in Berlin's history.

with in hours of East Germany's decision to open up

its borders to the west.

the city erupted in a frenzy of celebration

The infamous Berlin wall that has divided Europe for generations gave way

as thousands of Berliners from

both East and West strained through the crossing point

Throughout the night crowds from both sides of the city embraced as the

East German's Security guards stood by.

Peace on Earth , man.

You think? It has never been peace.

Now they have bombs to sell.

I need to find a new war to look.

... see the joy on people's faces ,

and see what freedom means ...

I found it several months ago .

- It is nice of you to share.

I can't do everything for you.

Unfortunately , This is as far as i've got.

I've been trying every American name i can think of and

Nothing works.

Someone is using one of the lines.

- quick patch it through. Let's see what they're looking at.

What the hell is that?

They're protecting their code with some form of encryption code.

So that i can't see what they're saying.

What about Jeddah?

- No.

Ronald.

- No

Jesse.

- Tod.

Guys Come on.This is too dangerous .

- Don't worry about it.Its gonna be fine.

Try John Connor .

- might as well.

Come on.

- Right now the Terminator's gonna get us.

Can we trace the call ?

- We have it over.

Okay. We're half way.

We need a password.

People use this when it comes to protecting their identity.

This is should be easy.

When the Allies took Germany at the end of the war.

All the military sites were protected by the same number.

Yeah. Hitler's birthday.

- Hang on there. Is that a line noise?

Come on.

No... We're almost there .

Hang on there.

Its coming at regular intervals. Sh*t!

Someone else is on the line. Cut the line.

Did you get it? No.. No we didn't get him.

- I 'm sorry.

How did they find us so quickly?

- I don't know. That wasn't MILNET.

That wa.. That was Local. They've been tracing our calls.

Okay.

Alright. Go.

Alright Tim, Could you pass me those papers to me, mate?

I need those by 3 pm

Or, you're fired.

F***ing idiot .

Alright Tim, Could you pass me those papers to me, mate?

I need those by 3 pm

Or, you're fired.

Australian Federal Police.

How can I direct your call?

Mike Stewart , please.

- Won't be a moment .

I'm sorry, But there's no one named Mike Stewart.

There is a Matthew J. Stewart .

Yes. My mistake .

- Putting you through.

Matthew Stewart .

- I'm sorry about it Matt, but we have a system crash .

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Suelette Dreyfus

Dr. Suelette Dreyfus is a technology researcher, journalist, and writer. Her fields of research include information systems, digital security and privacy, the impact of technology on whistleblowing, health informatics and e-Education. Her work examines digital whistleblowing as a form of freedom of expression and the right of dissent from corruption. She is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Principal Researcher on an international research project on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing. more…

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