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Currently watching Taking Liberties - was on TV a while back but missed it. Worth watching if you've not seen it if only to get yer blood boiling. It's about Labour's decimation of civil liberties and human rights during their regime and has plenty to please the Mental Moaty McMadman Fan Club too ;)

PS: That linky should be okay cos all the docs are taken from PooToob, Google Videos etc so no copyright infringement as such (sort of). A few goodies on there for my fellow docufans :)
 
I just watched Between Life and Death on iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t3szs/Between_Life_and_Death/

"Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt, and even reverse, the process of death. Filmed over six months in the country's leading brain injury unit (Addenbooke's Hospital, Cambridge), it follows the journey of a man who, by only moving his eyes, is eventually asked if he wants to live or die. Two other families are also plunged into the most ethically difficult decision in modern medicine."

It takes quite a lot to upset me but this was one of the most harrowing things I have ever seen on television. Blown away by the medical care at that place, and how the Doctor was determined to stick with that guy even though the family would have switched the machine off. Seeing how people's decisions can change over time...
 
mugabe, great link. you've done well.

Fourteen Days in May

Fourteen Days in May is a documentary directed by Paul Hamann. The program recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession had been made under duress. He was executed in Mississippi’s gas chamber on May 20, 1987.

The documentary crew, given access to the prison warden, guards and chaplain and to Johnson and his family, filmed the last days of Johnson’s life in detail. The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African-Americans convicted of crimes against whites. The program features attorney Clive Stafford Smith, a noted advocate against capital punishment.
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you can watch it here

i've never seen a documentary before which has left me feeling this way.... i'm boiling with rage at the injustice this innocent man had to go through. what the fuck.

has any one else seen this? i'm on such a downer now... :(
 
http://www.hackervoice.co.uk/wotws/WOTWS-Hackers.mp4

Episode from Channel 4's "Walk on the Wild Side" series aired in 1994, looking at hacker subculture. It's an unusually honest insight into the mentality of two british hackers active during the 90's and actually manages to deliver the reality of things without too much bullshit or embellishment.

This was made before aspergers syndrome was invented*, before Hackers the movie was released, before the graphical WWW existed and is from the time when being "a computer geek" was on a par with suffering from leprosy in terms of how it affected ones social standing.

You'll notice the two main people featured in it, who discuss abusing phone networks around the globe, breaking into military and government computers, data-theft, pornography at 14.4kbps and credit card fraud etc bear no resemblance to the intolerable hellokitty-emo-androgenous-web2.0-pointandclick-nintendoDS-wielding talentless twats that the word 'geek' brings to mind in 2010.

One of them does have a haircut that was trendy at the time though - the sight of which may induce feelings of shame and self-loathing for anyone male and around the age of 30 - but that along with bits of dance music that are unequivocally of the period , chunky analog cellphones that look like toys, the old C4 logo and vhs tracking noise just add to the nostalgic charm which alone makes this well worth watching.

*gary mckinnon is guilty and admits it; an invented medical condition with symptoms consisting mainly of "being a bit odd" and "getting caught hacking" shouldn't continue to be an acceptable defense for people collared for computer crimes, as it has in the past;

The people in this documentary were fully aware that what they did was illegal and realised they would be prosecuted and punished if they were caught. Gary McKinnon also knew full well he was breaking the law too, and while he shouldn't be deported to the USA, deserves to be convicted and appropriately punished in the UK like any other criminal would be.

Distancing himself from the mundane criminal reality of what he did, living in a stoned fantasy padded out with shit about aliens that he thought could just be turned off at will - he was deliberately hiding the truth from himself, which seems to be a popular way of life for a lot of people.
This documentary is about people setting out to escape that bubble and liberating themselves through technology, it's a refreshing point of view to come across nearly 20 years later.

*sigh*, mdpv eats 5 hours of my life once more.
 
Was bored last nite and watched black tar heroin again. Fucking sticks with you for a while. I'd love to know what happened to them all. I'd say a few are dead probably.
 
I'd say dead quite long ago too tbh. Pretty unforgettably harsh.

Watch The Bridge if you need cheering up, I couldn't watch the whole thing, it's pretty grim.
 
Ceres said:
The people in this documentary were fully aware that what they did was illegal and realised they would be prosecuted and punished if they were caught. Gary McKinnon also knew full well he was breaking the law too, and while he shouldn't be deported to the USA, deserves to be convicted and appropriately punished in the UK like any other criminal would be.

Distancing himself from the mundane criminal reality of what he did, living in a stoned fantasy padded out with shit about aliens that he thought could just be turned off at will - he was deliberately hiding the truth from himself, which seems to be a popular way of life for a lot of people.
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On the other hand : if there was a possibility that I might be extradited to the states, I would be shoving two pencils up my nose, wearing underpants on my head , and saying "wibble" too..
The US has no problem with ignoring human rights : Mitnick was held for 4 1/2 years without trial or representation, and then spent a year in solitary.
 
furrball said:
On the other hand : if there was a possibility that I might be extradited to the states, I would be shoving two pencils up my nose, wearing underpants on my head , and saying "wibble" too..
The US has no problem with ignoring human rights : Mitnick was held for 4 1/2 years without trial or representation, and then spent a year in solitary.
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Obviously, the american legal system is unpleasant, we have no power to extradite americans for trial here etc. Mitnick knew the risks of what he was doing, it took them a bloody long to catch him and he was good at what he did, so they made an example of him as a quite unique case at the time.

He ended up being quite successfull in the security industry as a result which is pretty common for convicted hackers, but I can't see mckinnon getting a job out of all this. Maybe he should stick at the singing and dancing he seems to enjoy.

He knew what he was doing, got caught because he was thick enough to go poking at yank military computers in the hysteria that followed the 11/09 attacks in NYC, using his own internet connection, and left messages on the machines incase any admin hadn't already noticed what he was doing. He only has himself to blame for that.
 
watsons torment said:
just watched that nice one, dialing into BBS systems on an amiga.... ahh those were the days :)

i did find it amusing how when they were speaking to the h4x3rs they had a computer that was running a continual loop of just listing a directory structure in the background for effect. mwhahaha
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yeah thats guaranteed to give the impression of hacking going on :P

"porn, its a bit popular on the old modems, its why people buy em" cracked me up in particular.
 
watsons torment said:
just watched that nice one, dialing into BBS systems on an amiga.... ahh those were the days :)

i did find it amusing how when they were speaking to the h4x3rs they had a computer that was running a continual loop of just listing a directory structure in the background for effect. mwhahaha
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Loved my amiga, damn shame they went bust.

And I love movie 'hacking' - they almost always do it wrong. The main reason is because it's dull and tedious for normal people to watch... waiting a day for a brute force isn't going to make good telly.

Heres a mitnick documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6746139755329108302#
here's the unauthorised film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/
 
dax said:
Loved my amiga, damn shame they went bust.

And I love movie 'hacking' - they almost always do it wrong. The main reason is because it's dull and tedious for normal people to watch... waiting a day for a brute force isn't going to make good telly.

Heres a mitnick documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6746139755329108302#
here's the unauthorised film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/
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I'll check them out

yup! remember the telnet session from the film hackers?

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giant lol.

although nmap which is a real tool used computer security enthusiasts the world over has made it into a few films in recent times (http://nmap.org/movies.html) such as the matrix/bourne ultimatum/die hard 4 so its nice to see that they are trying to add a bit of realism
 
tm1210 said:
Loved my Amiga as well. Anyone remember Grapevine?
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Sheeeeet that takes me all the way back to 1991! i only had a couple of those disks! it was like a little slice of the internet on a floppydisk.. which was about the best you could hope for back then

i've just found a website where you can download floppy disk images of the releases, i'm going to install an amiga emulator and have a read :D

http://www.pictureinthesky.net/applications.php

search for grapevine in the applications section. i can't directly link to it because the page is generated on request :)

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