In the Realm of the Hackers
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In The Realm of the Hackers is a documentary about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 80's to early 1990. The storyline is centered around 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.
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Edited by Uri MizrahiShot by Kevin AndersonScored by Janine De LorenzoDesigned by Neil Angwin
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16 unique people credited
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Ben Anderson
as Australian Federal Police Officer
Suzanne Barr
as Australian Federal Police Officer
Kathy Bowlen
as Newsreader
John Campbell
as Australian Federal Police Officer
Ken Day
as Self
Ilya Djukic
as KGB Officer
Suelette Dreyfus
as Self
John Dyson
as System Administrator
Paul Edwards
as NASA worker
Michael Giacobbe
as Teenage hacker
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