Melbourne hackers were getting a reputation around the world, and none more so than the group known as The Realm. Phoenix, Electron and Nom antagonised system administrators and computer security experts around the world, even shutting down NASA for an entire day. The police needed to act and they were starting to catch up.
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Melbourne hackers were getting a reputation around the world, and none more so than the group known as The Realm. Phoenix, Electron and Nom antagonised system administrators and computer security experts around the world, even shutting down NASA for an entire day. The police needed to act and they were starting to catch up. Credits: News clips (ABC Library Sales) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melbourne hackers were getting a reputation around the world, and none more so than the group known as&nbsp;The Realm.&nbsp;Phoenix, Electron and Nom&nbsp;antagonised system administrators and computer security experts around the world, even shutting down NASA for an entire day. The police needed to act and they were starting to catch up.
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Episode 3 - Flag Planting Happiness

Introducing Motherlode, a Ranieri & Co. production. The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world.

It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.

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Introducing Motherlode, a Ranieri & Co. production. The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world. It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.

Introducing Motherlode, a Ranieri &amp; Co. production. The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world.

It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.

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