Motherlode
Introducing Motherlode, a Ranieri & Co. production. The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world.
It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 8
- Years Active
- 2022
Episode 7 - Intelligence Agency of the People
Wikileaks was at least 20 years in the making. Described as a “radical form of muck-raking”, it was a unique convergence of technology, a new brand of politics and university maths puzzles.
00:54:35 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
Episode 6 - Cypherpunks
A new brand of politics was taking hold online. Left leaning liberals and free market libertarians combined to create something new.
00:46:09 |
Sat 26 Feb 2022
Episode 5 - International Subversives
The next hacker group to hit the scene, International Subversives went further, hacked more and were unashamedly political.
00:42:40 |
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Episode 4 - The Party's Over
It took a while for the Australian Federal Police to take hacking seriously, but when they finally did, the party was over.
00:35:22 |
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Episode 3 - Flag Planting Happiness
Melbourne hackers were getting a reputation around the world, and none more so than the group known as The Realm.
00:48:15 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Episode 2 - You’ve Been Wanked
The beginning of Hacktivism: the Wank Worm infects thousands of computers around the world.
00:39:17 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Episode 1 - Tiny Rogueness
Computer hacking started off innocently enough: teenage boys, bored with life in the outer suburbs, exploring a new technology.
00:45:16 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Episode 0 - Motherlode Trailer
Introducing Motherlode, the gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne, Australia. It’s where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers an…
00:03:49 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
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