Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Underground is an Australian television film produced for Network Ten. It premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and aired on Network Ten onOctober 2012. The film draws its title from Underground Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange, but the film bears little relation to the book itself, which catalogues the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers during the 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself. The film was not approved by Julian Assange, Wikileaks or any other member of the Assange family and there was no collaboration with the Assanges or Wikileaks during the making of the film. However Julian Assange subsequently had a very favourable response to the movie.

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 dont steal they broke into some of the worlds 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. ........

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