Cyber Guérilla: Hackers, pirates et guerres secrètes (2009)

• 70%
• 2009
• Documentary
• Jean-Martial Lefranc

Investigating the new digital battlefield and our ever growing dependence on computers and the Internet, a paradise land for hackers and criminals. Within 10 years the Net has invaded our lives making the world wide web a virtual land that is reality to millions of users everyday. Our growing dependence on computers and the Net is a paradise land for hackers and criminals who for various motivations are leading the next world war: the cyber war. Whether aiming at destabilizing sovereign States, or robbing big corporations or ordinary citizens, the tools are recognizable: Spams, Scams, Zombie attacks. From Estonia - who experienced in 2007 the first cyberwar led by a mob of Russian Nationalists hackers - to Israel, from St. Petersburg and China to the Pentagon this film investigates the new digital battlefield seen from both sides, pirates and hackers versus security services and private investigators, trying to assess the reality of such a threat.