We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013)

Directors

Alex Gibney

Cast

Adrian Lamo, Julian Assange

The story

The 1989 WANK worm attack on NASA computers, which occurred on the week the Galileo spacecraft was launched, is depicted in the film as the work of Australian hackers, including Assange. The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009–2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Chelsea Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, the release by Wikileaks of the Collateral Murder video, the Iraq War documents, the Afghanistan War documents, US diplomatic cables, Lamo's exposure of Manning to the FBI and the…

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