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Watch the full-length documentary video “Hackers in Wonderland”, a film focused on elite Computer Hackers in Britain. The video also goes into details about the history of hacking, and the different types of computer hackers including Black Hat and White Hat.

Most people don’t realize that the majority of hackers are white hat, which are good computer hackers that are legally hired to protect businesses by testing their security and then fix the vulnerabilities. This film helps illustrate how important the need for white hackers are, and that we should fix the problems with the holes in the computer systems.

“Hackers in Wonderland” 47minutes 40 seconds.

“We could wipe out Cyber Crime tomorrow, simply be legislating due diligence standards for corporations. We are allowing the Bill Gates’s of the world. We are allowing the Internet equipment manufacturers the computer manufacturers to sell equipment that is not good enough. Companies are stealing us blind by protecting their formulas, by not protecting their intellectual property, by not protecting your bank account, by not protecting you from identity theft.
–Robert D Steele
Open Source Solutions

Watch the full documentary “Hacking Democracy” by HBO. This film discuses how the 2000/2004 elections were using the Diebold voting machines, and how easily the machines were being hacked. The secret source code used on the election machines had easy ways for the elections to be manipulated and was proven by using expert computer hackers.

A team called “Black Box Voting” hired computer hackers to test the Diebold machines, after a regular non-tech savvy woman accidentally stumbled upon the proprietary and highly secret source code to the Diebold voting machines while browsing the anonymous FTP server on the Diebold website.

Very well done film and highly recommend you watch especially if interested in computer security and ethical hacking.

Watch “Modern Marvels: Creation of the Computer” by the History Channel. Full documentary with no-commercials is below.  Very well done documentary outlining the history and creation of the computer.  Informative and well-done.

I believe computers and the internet  are the greatest inventions of modern man.   It surprises me how little we all know about the history of computers, considering how computers are now a major part of out lives.

More “History of Computers” full length documentaries are soon to come.

Watch the full documentary by the Science Channel / Discovery Channel, “Download: The True Story of the Internet“.  A full documentary on the history of the internet with a focus on the history of search engines such as Google. HIGHLY recommend. Best episode on the series and has some very interesting information on the history of the Internet that I wasn’t aware of.  Very well done documentary.  Full video posted below.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Download: The True Story of the Internet  - People Power

Science / Discovery Channel Documentary on the history of the Internet, Facebook, Myspace, Napster, Craigslist, and other social networking web sites. Very well done documentary series on the history of the internet. Highly recommended.