9 Jun 2010
Hackers Wanted Documentary
“Wish you luck, hope you don’t end up in a prison jail.”
“Well…if I do, I’ll make sure to make an experience out of it.” - Adrian Lamo
Hackers Wanted is a very basic documentary. I don’t mean this from a knowledgeable coder point of view but from an average internet surfer knowledge level.
There’s really nothing in this documentary that would shock or surprise people who have a basic understanding of what hacking means (as a dictionary term, not the actual act)
Even the details you might not have heard of won’t give you any nitty gritty insight into the daily grind of a hacker.
You could compare this torrent to many of those Pro-Piracy torrents that get seeded by tons of people but really only containing a clean image ideology of the subject they’re talking about.
That said, this documentary is particularly notable because of the premise behind it:
From Wikipedia:
Hackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film.
Directed and written by Sam Bozzo, the film explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history. The film is narrated by Kevin Spacey.
Originally named “Can You Hack It?” The film failed to get a conventional release because of alleged conflicts between its producer and others on the team. On May 20, 2010, a version of the film was leaked to BitTorrent. Adrian Lamo has stated that he had no involvement in the leak.
“It’s ironic that a film about overcoming barriers, about new technologies, about thinking differently, had to come to the public eye by being hacked out of the hands of people who, after making a film about the free flow of information, tried to lock away that information forever. The truth tends to itself.” -Adrian Lamo
According to an insider, the latest version of the film contains additional footage and is significantly different from the one leaked online.[citation needed]
How does this relate to Hikikomori?
Torrent link: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Hackers-Wanted-2008-DVDRip-MP4-LKRG/419660c1473a8e6d6756dca7951ed5c87ab7c3d105f3
Warning! I don’t understand codecs but even when viewing it with the latest K-lite codec pack, the video will auto-mute around 48:32 of the video. If you move forward past this section, the sound doesn’t go away as long as you don’t have the video playing around this point.
It relates to Hikikomori because the hacker ideal is very similar to being isolated from the outside world only Hackers don’t isolate themselves in a room and many of them actually mingle outside.
Again, from a knowledge point of view, it’s not really that shocking but it’s still a perspective average Hikikomories would want to check out.
Of course for those actual talented Hikikomories, the documentary is kind of obvious if not optimistically portrayed but it’s still something Hikikomories would want to check out in case they never thought through Lamo’s perspective of the world.
