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DefCon 17

Hackers Are People Too will not have a booth this year, BUT Ashley will be selling the DVDs for $10 a piece as she walks around the con. Look for the girl with red hair and the HAPT T shirt! :) Hope to see you all there!

 

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2008 News

Hackers Are People Too was shown at the Tech Forum at University of Advanced Technology in November. Many thanks to the awesome people at UAT for including us in their tech forum!

 

The film was shown at the Flint Film Festival and now we are just waiting to hear back from the many other festivals we have submitted to! Keep your fingers crossed and tell your friends to go to IMDB and AMAZON.COM to write awesome reviews! ;-)

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The Premiere

HACKERS ARE PEOPLE TOO officially premiered at DEFCON 16 in Las Vegas to a crowd of approximately 3000 (Acccording to Bob Cat, it might have been more, but it was a scary/awesome number)! So far, the response from the community to the film has been overwhelmingly positive with comments ranging from "good film" to "one of the best documentaries I've ever seen". Thank you to all the awesome people who came to the premiere and even more thanks to all of you who bought a copy (or 10). We sold over 600 copies of the DVD at DefCon so thank you for helping us nearly break even!

 

What's Next?

Now we need to get this film seen by people outside the community! We have submitted to 13 festivals so far - and will update as soon as we find out if we've been accepted!

Thank You!

Thank you so much for checking out our site! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at info@hackersarepeopletoo.com

Keep coming back for updates! If anything exciting happens we will be sure to let you know! :-D

Everyone should join our Facebook group! Just search "Hackers Are People Too" and join the group and become a fan!

ALSO! The first part of my DefCon update is on my blog: mystrongestsuit.blogspot.com

 

Inspiration

The inspiration for this film came from a brief discussion I had with one my professors in March of 2007:

"I'll be missing class on Friday since I'm going to a conference."

"Oh, that's fine. What kind of conference?"

"A hacker conference." I was going to Shmoocon.

"HACKERS?! Like....*whispers dramatically* computer hackers? They have CONFERENCES?!"

"Um...yes."

"What do they do there? Do they try to hack into banks and take over networks and steal credit cards?"

*blank stare* ".............yes."

After that enlightening conversation, I decided that maybe hackers had been getting a bad rap for too long. How could people really still believe that all hackers were computer criminals? So after feeling out the idea at Shmoocon, I decided it would be a great idea to do a real documentary. I wrangled my friend Amanda into being my sound girl and come with me to DefCon where we recieved many strange stares as we tried to convince people that they wanted to talk to us on camera :)

Thank you for your continuing support and patience!