The Hacker Wars: Andrew Auernheimer

In The Hacker Wars documentary, the author Vivien Lesnik Weisman introduced Andrew Auernheimer, also known as “Wee. People in this documentary described as the Internet troll because he will do anything to troll people who are using the Internet. Andrew Auernheimer hacked AT&T server and revealed the weakness in its security structure of AT&T server. He was sentenced three and half years in prison by broke into AT&T website and stole more than 100,000 of iPad users’ data. He explained that he added one number to the end of AT&T’s web server URL and it exploded the login information of the iPad’s users. It was 114,000 list of customers exploded, those included the US government email. He said “I’m aggregating public data and using it to criticize people whose politics I dislike. The FBI is combing through people’s emails, grossly violating their constitutional rights.” Based what he said, he thinks that the government is invading people

He blew the whistle on the secret surveillance programs called Stellar Wind. However, the government prosecuted him under Espionage Act and he faced 35 years in prison.
Barret Brown is an American journalist; he is also the founder Project PM. Glenn Greenwald shared his thought about Barret Brown that he is not the journalist that who always please the government power. He claimed Barret Brown always report the truth, even it makes those power uncomfortable or reflects on them. People also describe him arrogant and cocky dropped out college guy. Barret thinks FBI ruined his family because FBI indicted his father. However, his father found guilty, FBI released him and apologized to Barret’s family.
The documentary also talked about Jeremy Hammond known as “the electronic Robin Hood”. He’s currently serving a ten-year sentence for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing millions of emails through the