Hacking Democracy filmed over 3 years, first shown on HBO (a unit of Time Warner) in 2006 and released on DVD in 2007. The 80-minute documentary reveals many strange facts about paperless (or e-voting) systems that established during elections in the U.S.A. in the last years. It focuses on the story of Bev Harris, director of nonprofit election watchdog group called Black Box Voting, and her investigations of potential security flaws inherent in electronic voting. ...
This documentary is about hackers who would be heroes of computer revolution but became outlaws in the world that they created. The story starts from the phone phreaks who were able to control telephone systems anytime and anywhere.In general, they were responsible for generating some kind of paranoia about phone communcations controlled by the government and elusive hackers threating national security. A lot of talented engineers,like Steve Woznyak and Steve Jobs - future founders of ...