Hacking vindicated! Within the computing, hobbyist, creative design, and invention communities, as elsewhere, hacking has always been a positive thing, but the media and the less than knowledgeable computer security community co-opted the term and the concept, and the media embraced it because it was easier to tell than the truth. But now the misnomer has been torn away by the honesty of a new filmmaker, Ashley Schwartau, who has taken the direct approach to getting at the truth. Observe and ask the people involved. And the truth looks more like students in engineering school and their adult counterparts who never gave up the vision of rugged individualism combined with a sense of community that brought the world out of ignorance and into the information age. Enlighten yourself, and watch this movie. Then send your kids to join the industrious, interested, amazed, joyous, freeing crowd of investigative inventors in the Internet and elsewhere - the hackers! --Fred CohenSaturday, January 10, 2009
Hackers Are People Too [2008]
Hacking vindicated! Within the computing, hobbyist, creative design, and invention communities, as elsewhere, hacking has always been a positive thing, but the media and the less than knowledgeable computer security community co-opted the term and the concept, and the media embraced it because it was easier to tell than the truth. But now the misnomer has been torn away by the honesty of a new filmmaker, Ashley Schwartau, who has taken the direct approach to getting at the truth. Observe and ask the people involved. And the truth looks more like students in engineering school and their adult counterparts who never gave up the vision of rugged individualism combined with a sense of community that brought the world out of ignorance and into the information age. Enlighten yourself, and watch this movie. Then send your kids to join the industrious, interested, amazed, joyous, freeing crowd of investigative inventors in the Internet and elsewhere - the hackers! --Fred Cohen
All For Melissa [2007]
A dreamer with a family who doesn't understand him, tech support rep and aspiring filmmaker Jared Rogers has only a single, slight obsession: to meet Melissa Williams, a red-hot actress who doesn't know he exists. With the help of his longtime friend Alicia, he heads from his Hawaiian homeland to Hollywood on a mission--to convince Melissa to star in his music video and win her heart. But when not all goes as planned, Jared finds himself torn between his fantasy fixation and the chance at a realistic romance.Special Feature(s): From Here to Awesome Film Festival Featurette; Storyboard vs. Film; Interview with Director Gerard Elmore; Interview with Ain't It Cool News Contributor Albert Lanier; Deleted Scenes
- Actors: Kimberly Estrada
- Directors: Gerard Elmore
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating:
- Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Links: Imdb
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