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Hackers: Outlaws & Angels

This alarming program reveals the daily battle between the Internet’s outlaws and the hackers who oppose them by warding off system attacks, training IT professionals and police officers, and watching cyberspace for signs of imminent infowar. Through interviews with frontline personnel from the Department of Defense, NYPD’s computer crime squad, private detective firm Kroll Associates, X-Force Threat Analysis Service, and several notorious crackers, the program provides penetrating insights into the millions of hack attacks that occur annually in the U.S.—including one that affected the phone bills of millions and another that left confidential details of the B-1 stealth bomber in the hands of teenagers. The liabilities of wireless networks, the Code Red worm, and online movie piracy are also discussed. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes)

Over the past 20 years a new breed of people has been evolving.
They have their own culture, their own technology and their own languages.
Among them are pirates and thieves, celebrities and philosophers, lawbreakers and police, heroes and villains.
They operate all over the world but their real home is cyberspace.
And now there's a conflict in cyberspace between its outlaws and its angels.
This is the inside story of the very different missions which now drive the diverse breed of people known to the world as hackers.
24 hours a day, seven days a week, a war is being fought on the web.
Dennis Treece leads one of the teams of front line defenders positioned around the globe, ready to spot and neutralize the latest attack.
This is the Global Threat Operations Center.