In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.
At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special taskforce to catch them. But at a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, they had to figure out just where to begin.
Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows, is a tense and gripping game of cat and mouse through the electronic underground of Melbourne.
| CAST | |
| Christine Assange | Rachel Griffiths |
| Detective Ken Roberts | Anthony LaPaglia |
| Julian Assange | Alex Williams |
| Electra | Laura Wheelwright |
| Prime Suspect | Callan McAuliffe |
| Trax | Jordan Raskopoulos |
| Jonah | Benedict Samuel |
